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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: NCLB Does Not Narrow Racial Test Score Gap
In a message dated 11/20/2006 5:16:32 AM Pacific Standard Time, bobschaeffer@earthlink.net writes: Despite concerted efforts by educators, the test-score gaps are so large that, on average, African-American and Hispanic students in high school can read and do arithmetic at only the average level of whites in junior high school.,,, The reports and their authors, in interviews, portrayed an educational landscape in which test-score gaps between black or Hispanic students and whites appear in kindergarten and worsen through 12 years of public education. __________________________________________________ This list has been an outlet for the charge that claims of problems in the schools are part of a stealthy agenda to privatize public education. How terribly, terribly irresponsible and terribly, terribly sad. Maybe the "concerted efforts" are not as concerted as they should be. That's the whole point of NCLB - to drive improvement of schools. Art
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