The achievement gap is often described as the academic discrepancy between the test scores of minority and other low-income students and the test scores of their white and Asian peers. However, the score gap affects many different groups in many different walks of life in America. Different groups may fall behind their peers at different points in their academic careers. Classic examples are boys in the early years of school and girls in high school mathematics and science. Differences between students from different backgrounds are most evident in large-scale standardized tests. Gaps in test scores very often lead to long-term gaps, including in high school and college completion and even in the kinds of jobs these students are able to hold as adults. The achievement gap has been part of the American school system since the 1980s. first days of school. There was a time when rich kids would do better because they had time to focus on their studies, while poor kids on the farm would have to go home and help on the farm. These poor kids wouldn't study as hard as rich kids and therefore wouldn't do as well in class. Many times parents of poor children did not understand why their children were forced to go to school instead of helping them harvest crops, which would have been a much better use of their time. Schools have passed through many phases of American history since their debut around 1635 in the colonies. At first only boys could go, then only white boys and girls, then other ethnic groups were allowed to join, and now it is absolutely mandatory for every single child living in the United States to attend school. You would do ... half the paper ...% as much as possible. This should be how we measure the quality of our schools. This is the true test of schools' success. How many students live improve. The main role that our schools should play in a student's life is to make him or her better himself. Academically, socially, mentally, physically, all of this is important to making our students better people. Who knows that poor black kid who doesn't want to try in your class might come up with the next life-changing invention? Or maybe that same kid could become a great athlete, president, CEO, or maybe even you will have such an effect on your life that he will want to grow up and become a teacher. So that he can do the same with some of his other students. Isn't this the best way to improve our school districts for the better? Instill in our students a hunger to learn that will never be satiated?