{"id":8635,"date":"2020-02-10T14:49:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T14:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/02\/10\/academic-achievement-gap\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:31:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:31:56","slug":"academic-achievement-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/academic-achievement-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic achievement gap slowly closing, but inequities persist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a report appearing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/2020\/02\/10\/desegregation-greenville-schools-academic-achievement-gap-inequities\/4432638002\/\">The Greenville News<\/a> about desegregation, Furman University Education Professor Paul Thomas takes issue with what the Nation&#8217;s Report Card terms the &#8220;academic achievement gap&#8221; between test scores of white and minority students. Instead, he says the differences in reading and math scores have more to do with resources. &#8220;It&#8217;s an equity gap,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a report appearing in The Greenville News about desegregation, Furman University Education Professor Paul Thomas takes issue with what the Nation&#8217;s Report Card terms the &#8220;academic achievement gap&#8221; between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-education","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}