Re: New Research on Closing Achievement Gaps

[ABurke5054@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/13/2006 4:39:33 AM Pacific Standard Time,  
bobschaeffer@earthlink.net writes:

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Northwest Evaluation Association  (NWEA) 
researchers released today a new study on the achievement gap, the  
difference between the academic performance of students in poor and  
wealthy schools and between minority and non-minority students. The  
study revealed that for every group at every grade students from poor  
schools grew less than students from wealthy schools and minority  
students exhibited less growth than their non-minority  peers....




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This is not news.  This has been pretty much the message over the last  50 
years.  This is why the NAACP argued in federal court that states should  
enforce the letter and spirit of NCLB, instead of gaming the system and trying  to 
weasel out of their responsibilities to poor children and minority  children.  
Thank goodness educators and groups like FairTest are solidly on  the side of 
children, parents, and the NAACP and not resorting to subterfuges  like suing 
to halt NCLB because it is an "unfunded mandate."
 
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