November 30, 2001

NAACP Issues Ideas for Reducing Inequities in Education

By DAN CURRY

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People this month issued wide-ranging recommendations for reducing racial inequities in educational quality, access, and achievement. The recommendations, about half of which deal with higher-education issues, come as the first step in the association's five-year plan to cut racial disparities in academic achievement by half.

John H. Jackson, the group's national director of education, said the association plans to meet with U.S.

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