Yet this progress has met limits. Hispanics and inner city residents still drop out much more frequently than others, the gap between black and white achievement rose during the 1990s after declining in the previous decade, the achievement gap between students from lower-and higher-class families has barely budged, and poor students in poor urban schools have dramatically lower rates of literacy and arithmetic or scientific competence.
This reminds me of when I watched the movie "Freedom Writers". Which hispanics, asians, and blacks were deemed as at-risk teenagers. They came from family or relations to gang violence, drug abuse, abuse, broken homes, etcs and the school treated them as a waste of resources. Only those who could afford a better education had a chance at a better life and it showed it. Their 5th grade reading level proved that those who came from nothing had a harder time of making it anywhere without a support of an education or a system that cared.