--- title: America's Race Gap Is Stuck description: America's race gap is stuck, how India's improving life for girls, overmeasuring teachers and more. canonical: https://time.com/4184901/americas-race-gap-is-stuck/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-19T18:08:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:35.065Z article:section: Ideas og:title: America's Race Gap Is Stuck og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4184901/americas-race-gap-is-stuck/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: America's Race Gap Is Stuck twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # America's Race Gap Is Stuck by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 19, 2016 6:08 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 19, 2016 6:08 PM UTC **1\.** [**The unbending arc: America’s race gap is stuck.**](http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/social-mobility-memos/posts/2016/01/18-unbending-arc-americas-race-gap-reeves) By Richard V. Reeves at the Brookings Institution **2\.** [**Here’s how India made life better for girls.**](http://wilsonquarterly.com/stories/in-indian-towns-where-women-are-elected-life-improves-for-girls/) By Miriam Kelberg in Wilson Quarterly **3\.** [**Are we over-measuring doctors and teachers?**](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/opinion/sunday/how-measurement-fails-doctors-and-teachers.html) By Robert M. Wachter in the New York Times **4\.** [**Striking a nuclear deal with Iran doesn’t make us friends.**](http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/01/18/iran-nuclear-deal-prisoner-exchange-ryan-crocker/78961544/) By Ryan Crocker in USA Today **5\.** [**Why your next car should be 3D printed.**](https://medium.com/backchannel/why-your-next-car-should-be-3d-printed-63dd19ff0254#.eif8zll3e) By Mark Harris in Backchannel  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4184901/americas-race-gap-is-stuck/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4184901/americas-race-gap-is-stuck/"},"headline":"America's Race Gap Is Stuck","datePublished":"2016-01-19T18:08:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:35.065Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4184901/americas-race-gap-is-stuck/","keywords":["Innovation","Iran","India","Race","cars","Teachers"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4184901/americas-race-gap-is-stuck/","name":"America's Race Gap Is Stuck"}}]}] ```