At this pace, CT schools will never close the opportunity gap - 50CAN National

At this pace, CT schools will never close the opportunity gap

By: Steven Hernández for the CT Mirror

Published on: February 12, 2025

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The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results, released late last month, reveal a distressing trend in Connecticut’s education system.

The opportunity gap between students with resources and those without has widened since 2000, with Black, Hispanic, and economically disadvantaged students falling, in some cases, further behind their peers.

Connecticut’s overall performance in the 2024 NAEP, also known as the Nation’s Report Card, is as follows:

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