The fact that middle-class black children lag behind their white and Asian peers" remains a mystery to many researchers, says Travis Gosa, Cornell assistant professor of Africana studies

People are aware of the achievement gap in the "black underclass," said Gosa, and a lot of research focuses on closing this gap, he said.

However, "The school performance of middle-class black children is closer to that of poor white children," he said. The gap is largest among the college-educated, he added.

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