Experts disagree on how to narrow education gap.

Experts disagree on how to narrow education gap. Closing the education gap is not as simple as The Education Trust, a national advocacy group, says it is. Experts disagree on the most effective solution, according to according toprep.1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.2. In keeping with: according to instructions.3. The Hartford Courant Cou`rant´a. 1. (Her.) Represented as running; - said of a beast borne in a coat of arms.n. 1. A piece of music in triple time; also, a lively dance; a coranto.2. . To close the education gap the issue "has to be approached more broadly at the community level, the state level and the federal level," says Paul E. Barton of Educational Testing Service The Educational Testing Service (or ETS) is the world's largest private educational testing and measurement organization, operating on an annual budget of approximately $1.1 billion on a proforma basis in 2007. . Many factors outside of school prevent Latino and black students from reaching the desired level of education, which include low birth weight, lead poisoning lead poisoningor plumbism(plŭm`bĭz'əm), intoxication of the system by organic compounds containing lead. resulting from poverty, and too much television. While Kati Haycock, The Education Trust director, agrees community issues make it more difficult, she says, "good teaching can overcome these difficulties". www.edtrust.org