Re: Rich and Poor (was College Board?)

["George K. Cunningham" <gkc@LOUISVILLE.EDU>]

This is so absurd as to need to no reply and I guess I should have let it
go.  But...

It reminds me of my friends on other listserves who believe that
standardized testing is being pushed by the U.N. which is using it to build
data bases about all citizens on computers.  These will be used when the
U.N. soldiers in their black helicopters come to take over the country.

George K. Cunningham
University of Louisville
----- Original Message -----
From: Judi Hirsch <judih@OUSD.K12.CA.US>
To: <ARN-L@listsrva.CUA.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: Rich and Poor (was College Board?)


> Dear George,
>     I think you have your chickens and eggs mixed up. The gaps between
rich
> and poor are planned by the rich to keep the rich rich; the tests are
> designed by the rich to perpetuate the current social/economic order. I
> believe it's called capitalism. Do you know that when test questions that
> were once unanswerable become answerable because children learn, they are
> pulled from the tests.
>     Judi (post #1)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: George Sheridan <gsheridan@BOMUSD.EDCOE.K12.CA.US>
> To: <ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 11:15 PM
> Subject: Rich and Poor (was College Board?)
>
>
> > At 09:33 PM 10/27/1999 -0400, George Cunningham wrote:
> >
> > >The gaps between rich and poor are the result of gaps in academic
> aptitude
> > >which stem from gaps in educational preparation which stem from
> something,
> > >but nobody knows what.
> >
> > I was under the impression we had some pretty clear evidence of reasons
> for
> > "gaps in educational preparation," such as the fact that, on average,
> > teachers in low-income areas have less academic training than teachers
in
> > more affluent areas. Aren't the funding disparities detailed by Kozol in
> > Savage Inequalities a good explanation for the achievement gap between
> rich
> > and poor?
> >
> >
> > George Sheridan
> >
> > Northside School
> > Black Oak Mine Unified School District
> > P.O. Box 217
> > Cool, California 95633
> >
>
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