 |
CAT Tracks for June 24, 2011
ACHIEVEMENT GAP |
Black achievement gap...Hispanic achievement gap...despite a decade of NCLB and so-called education reform?
Hmmm...the "new" is not working any better than the "old"?
Wonder if the "defenders of the status quo" - like "Tweeting Queen" Diane Ravitch - might actually be right???
Maybe it's NOT lazy, burned-out, tenured teachers protected by evil teachers' unions that are at the root of the problem. I mean...if that were the case, then
Why African Americans and Hispanics?
Oh, that's right. It's all those racist teachers who consciously hate minorities or, at best, subconsciously have low expectations for their abilities...NOT!
Are there bigoted teachers out there? Hell, yes...just like there are bigoted doctors, lawyers, preachers, politicians, plumbers, carpenters, Walmart greeters, etc. It's not a perfect world...unfortunately, never will be.
But, do a study...
For the sake of this study, "discard" all the minorities...focus on white people. See which white people score highest...which white people score lowest. Then, check their socio-economic status...
The answer for the black achievement gap, the Hispanic achievement gap. and the lowest scoring white achievement gap is the same...
P-O-V-E-R-T-Y
Personally, I prefer being a defender of the status quo to being an ugly azzed ostrich!
From Education Week...
Study Finds Gaps Remain Large for Hispanic Students
By Sarah D. Sparks
While growing numbers of Hispanic students have changed the face of American education over the past two decades, the gap between them and their white classmates in math and reading remains as wide as it was in the 1990s, according to a new federal study.
The National Center for Education Statistics report , released Thursday morning, finds that Hispanic students overall have improved significantly on the National Assessment of Educational Progress since 1990. The mean scale scores in mathematics rose 28 points for Hispanic 4th graders and 21 points for 8th graders; in reading, the scores improved 10 points in the 4th and 8th grades from the early 1990s to 2009, with each 10-point increase equal to about one grade level of improvement.
Yet non-Hispanic white students exceeded Hispanic students’ increase in math in both the 4th and 8th grades during the same time, and while white students’ performance improved more slowly in reading, the growth was not slow enough for Hispanic students to catch up and close the gaps of more than two grade levels between the...
Login (and subscribe if necessary) below to continue reading.
