Long-running preschool study shows challenges that Black boys face in sustaining positive gains

Long-running preschool study shows challenges that Black boys face in sustaining positive gains

Decades before the Trump administration forbade using federal funding for research into the topic, Craig Ramey wondered if high-quality early education for Black children in North Carolina might improve their life outcomes. Armed with a grant from the National Institutes of Health, Ramey established the Abecedarian Project at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The study assigned infants, most of them Black, who had been born into low…