The gap is there. Where it really compounds is where there is a racial and a gender gap. That's what you see for African-American and Latino males. It's a real challenge for us.

Well, there's no gender gap,

The achievement gap between children from high income and low income families is roughly 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than among those born 25 years ago. The class gap among students entering kindergarten was two to three times higher than the racial gap.

The stakes are too high for us to ignore this. We owe it to our kids so they can compete in their future workplace: college.

There is certainly a gender gap, and the demographics are not going to change. We can't grow 75-year-old men overnight.

A new gender gap has emerged in technology and this is disturbing and disheartening. If our nation is to continue to be a competitor in the global ecomony we need a healthy pool of technically trained persons ... We can achieve this only if we include both halves of the work force,