ABSTRACT
The United States faces a continuing educational crisis in its inner-city schools: racial isolation continues, children attending these same districts become poorer every year-increasing income and class isolation-academic achievement is unacceptably low, and drop-out rates are stubbornly and uncon scionably high. Yet, there has been substantial improvement in the educational performance of minority students, when compared to majority students during the 1970s and 1980s. The problem educators face is that a substantial gap in academic performance remains and that the demands of employers are outpac ing the gains of the average minority student.
