Public schools in the U.S. now have a majority of nonwhite students.
That's been the case since 2014, and yet children of color — especially boys — still lag behind their white peers.
This story has been all over the media. It's topic No. 1 at education conferences on university campuses. Even the White House is all over it.
But what Ron Ferguson wants to know is why. And he says there's a big group of experts out there who never get asked about it: boys and young men of color.
Ferguson, an economist at Harvard University, says that if we want to fix this problem, we need to listen to these students.
His latest report: Aiming Higher Together: Strategizing Better Educational Outcomes for Boys and Young Men of Color wascommissioned by the Urban Institute and pulls together research from national data and thousands of student surveys.
He talked with us recently about the report.
[For more of this story, written by Elissa Nadworny, go to http://www.npr.org/sections/ed...-the-achievement-gap]
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