Instead, what mattered was where a teacher went to college. Both Black and white teachers trained at an historically black college or university (HBCU) helped Black students do better in math. Almost ...

That for years has meant more white students in advanced math courses than Latino and Black students and fewer such courses in schools with high Latino and Black populations. The new practice in ...

For Wisconsin fourth graders, 51% of white students tested "proficient" or better in math. For Black students, the score was just 5% — an opportunity gap of 46 percentage points.

Black and Hispanic people are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers in the US, and that is unlikely to change if current trends continue, according ...