Reducing racial gaps in educational performance has been a national preoccupation for decades.

The creation of new jobs has not closed the racial and gender gap, however, even in this tight labor market.

Earlier studies have also shown a widening racial gap in the epidemic.

But it now seems that education cannot explain much about the racial gap in the outcome of pregnancies.

If he is right, part of the answer to the racial gap lies in the home.

Take what is arguably today's most important civil rights issue: the racial gap in academic achievement.

African-American schools had fewer resources leading to greater racial gaps in educational achievement.

Public and private institutions are pushing to close the racial gap in health disparities.

But many programs are helping close the racial gap.

The student leaders decided to hold an assembly instead, in which they lashed out at the racial gap.