FW: CA State results shed new light on wealth vs. poverty debate

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From: monicalucido@comcast.net
To: arn-l@interversity.org
Subject: [ca-resisters] CA State results shed new light on wealth vs. poverty debate
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:21:59 +0000
> The article just starts to narrow the problem down and it has been said it for 
> years now:  those students of color who are in the poorest areas must be 
> instructed using the richest vocabulary and hands on experiences that can be 
> found AND funded because they have missed that the most in their younger years. 
> But the business roundtables who support racist and biased tests will not allow 
> that. Those methods would actually solve much of the problem, and they can't 
> risk not having public schools look bad, as their ultimate goal is to funnel tax 
> payer money to their pocket books. The state and the NCLB law continues to push 
> the fallacy that test score achievement and focus is the way to attain some sort 
> of real world success for the folks in this brackett. Because supporters of the 
> testing movement acknowledge no other methods to determine mastery, they are 
> also blinded to possible teaching processes that will actually help second 
> language learners and RECOGNIZE the differences in cultu
> ral learning styles of blacks, latinos, and even poorer whites. They have truly 
> trapped themselves, and thus thousands of teachers and students, into a pressure 
> cooker that has little room for a real solution that will be meaningful. Watch 
> the profiteering start to explode further.
> 
> Joseph Lucido
> Educators and Parents Against Test Abuse