Black people have had to face many hardships because of that gap, because of attending perennially underfunded schools, and because of white people for generations trying to indoctrinate them toward anti-intellectualism. Time after time, research has shown that gaps between black and white students begin early in childhood and only widen with age. The socioeconomic makeup of a school can play a larger role in achievement than the poverty of an individual student’s family, and a poor education has a huge effect on later fortunes.
