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After narrowing through the 1980's, the gap between test scores of black and white students widened again between 1990 and 1999, according to national test scores released in a federal report.

PAGE B1 Test Score Gap Widens A gap between the test scores of black and white students widened in the 1990's, with the average black 17-year-old reading only about as well as the average white 13-year-old, the government said.

From 2003 to 2012, the gap in financial resources between Long Island's most privileged students and its most vulnerable students widened.

Here, again, "the opportunity gap for working-class and lower-income students widens," said Dr. Michael Knowlton, superintendent of the Summit public schools.

Wintrup's research interests include student engagement in curriculum innovation, transition experiences of international students, widening participation and the education and training of the health and social care support and technical workforce.

Inevitably neglect of low achieving students widens existing achievement gaps.

These discussions helped the students widen their perspectives.

Studies conducted by Stanford and the University of Michigan show that the achievement gap between rich and poor students has widened by as much as fifty per cent since 1980.

Shanghai students have widened their lead in the latest global comparison of the educational skills of 15-year-olds.

In Erie, Pa., today, Mr. Bush proposed expanding the federal Pell grant program to help more low-income students attend college, warning that the achievement gap separating rich and poor, black and white students was widening.

Universities will now also need to ensure that the HEFCE's 20% margin to recruit students from widening participation backgrounds is indeed used for this purpose.