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Dear Reader, Welcome to my blog. Here, the discussion of the educational gap between Affrican Americans and the white population will be discussed. In history, African Americans were segregated in schools and placed in separate institutions. Through the analysis of A Lesson Before Dying , readers can infer some of the factors that create an educational gap for Grant’s students. However, in this blog I will dig deeper into other factors that may influence this gap, presently and historically. The purpose here is to learn, analyze, and understand the education issue as it still presents itself and as it has presented itself in the past. The perspective on this issue that will be discussed is that this educational gap needs to be closed and the items contributing to the issue need to be discussed and changed. Because there is a lack of funding for African Americans and a lack of African American school teachers today, the student achievement gap is widening. Even though segrega