Achievement Gaps: How Black and White Students in Public Schools Perform in Mathematics and Reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) provides detailed information on the size of the achievement gaps between Black and White students at both the national and state level and how those achievement gaps have changed over time. Most of the data in this report is derived from the results of the 2007 main NAEP assessments, and is supplemented with data from the long-term trend assessments.

• Read a brief description of how to understand the gap analyses presented in the report.
• Explore the achievement gaps that result from hundreds of different student factors, including race/ethnicity, with the NAEP Data Explorer.
• Find out more about the Black-White achievement gap in your state with the NAEP State Comparisons tool.
• Read a statement from Acting Commissioner Stuart Kerachsky of the National Center for Education Statistics about the findings of the Achievement Gaps report.