A Crisis out of Hiding: Revisiting the Horrid Numbers of Black Schoolchildren in North Carolina'

Tim Simmons, once a staff writer for The News & Observer, discussed educational data pertaining to black American children in North Carolina's public schools. He discovered that 37% of black boys graduated from high school in four years. Their white counterpart averaged 70%. Simmons also explored the issues behind poor performance among black male learners. Socioeconomic status played a critical role in the educational statistics that harbored lack of black achievement. Tim Simmons' made a startling point: "race, not poverty, drives a wedge between test scores and white children."