White male students are 2.5 times more likely than black male students to be enrolled in Gifted/Talented programs and are half as likely to be classified as Mentally Retarded, despite research that consistently shows percentages of students of all races to be approximately the same at each intelligence level.

White male students are 2.5 times more likely than black male students to be enrolled in Gifted/Talented programs and are half as likely to be classified as Mentally Retarded, despite research that consistently shows percentages of students of all races to be approximately the same at each intelligence level.

Source: Race Against Time: Educating Black Boys (National Education Association, 2011)