Posted on 01/16/2017 12:21:38 PM PST by EinNYC
City Education Department officials have launched a $1.6 million plan to bring more black and Hispanic students into Advanced Placement courses, the Daily News has learned.
The city’s new Lead Higher program aims to bring 1,400 of these students at two dozen public schools into AP classes that are often dominated by white and Asian students.
Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña said the program will help shrink the achievement gap faced by black and Hispanic students, who enroll in AP classes and pass AP exams at lower rates than their white and Asian peers.
“This is an exciting initiative that reflects our commitment to diversity and inclusion in our classrooms,” Fariña said.
“Equity and excellence means ensuring all students have access to rigorous AP courses, and are enrolled in those courses and reaping the benefits.”
Students who pass AP exams in a variety of subjects ranging from calculus to U.S. history may receive college credits or special consideration in college admissions.
But the valuable classes have been mostly available at schools that enroll more white and Asian students compared with those that enroll more black and Hispanic kids.
A 2013 report found that white and Asian students attended city high schools with twice as many AP courses, compared with schools attended by black and Hispanic students.
Mayor de Blasio outlined a plan to address the inequality in 2015, dubbed “AP for All,” that brought new AP classes to 63 high schools in 2016.
Under de Blasio’s plan, 75% of students will have access to at least five AP classes by fall 2018. By fall 2021, students at all high schools will have access to at least five AP classes.
The Lead Higher program builds on that effort by adding tutoring, teacher training and more AP seats targeted at black and Hispanic students at high schools across the five boroughs starting in September.
Another seven schools will roll out added AP resources under Lead Higher in 2019. If the program yields strong results it may be expanded further.
The city is splitting the cost of the effort and rolling out the program in partnership with a Seattle-based nonprofit called Equal Opportunity Schools.
The challenges faced by black and Hispanic students who wish to earn AP credits are severe.
Just 7,386 black and Hispanic students passed AP exams in the 2014-15 school year, compared to 14,323 white and Asian students. Black and Hispanic kids account for roughly 70% of all city school students.
Melanie Katz, principal of Franklin D. Roosevelt High School in Brooklyn, said she hopes the Lead Higher program will help her add another 60 black and Hispanic students to AP classes in 2017.
“We’re reaching out to students, their families and the community to let them know the classes are out there,” Katz said. “The message is, ‘you can do it and we will help you through it.’ ”
With almost all colleges offering online programs, kids today that are high IQ can graduate from college by the time they are 18 and complete their Masters by age 20.
Even younger if they want to really push it.
Or they can do this:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/bronx-man-68-bleeds-death-genitals-cut-article-1.2897693
Three years later after my vacations in SE Asia I went back to school and discovered that X could equal any number and Y could equal any other number, something my PHD math professor forgot to tell me.
Never looked back, bye the way I scored 600 on the Sat's in math and neither they nor I could figure out how I did it.
This was early 60’s.
$1150 per student to get them to take AP classes? Seems a bit much, like $1150 too much.
I’ll leave it up to you to determine how this fits the thread.
A woman and her 12-year-old son were riding in a taxi in Detroit. It was raining and all the prostitutes were standing under awnings.
“Mom,” said the boy, “what are all those women doing?”
“They’re waiting for their husbands to get off work,” she replied.
The taxi driver turns around and says, “Geez lady, why don’t you tell him the truth? They’re hookers, boy! They have sex with men for money.”
The little boy’s eyes get wide and he says, “Is that true Mom?”
His mother, glaring hard at the driver, answers “Yes.”
After a few minutes the kid asks, “Mom, if those women have babies, what happens to them?”
She said, “Most of the boys become taxi drivers and most of the girls marry taxi drivers then become prostitutes.”
“Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.”
-Will Durant
ML/NJ
So true. My mother-in-law's neighbors are black, a nice well-to-do black family of several generations in the house. The second generation, me and my wife's age, in the past lamented that their adult sons were embarrassed not to have grown up poor in the ghetto. While in their late teens and early twenties, the sons would hang around with ghetto kids and imitate their slang and habits. It took them a while to grow out of that and try to improve their lives, which they finally did to the relief of the parents. Now that third generation have their own kids who are now teens, and the fourth generation is again dumbing itself down to appear "cool".
This is a cultural problem for some black middle-class families. Sometimes the kids are smart, but don't try to excel. Other times the kids are dumb and definitely don't want to excel. I generally don't see that problem with smart white kids; if they're smart they do apply themselves to excel.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him think.
My horses really want to be in the triple crown races. They deserve to be in my mind, all of them. Maybe there’s a way? A big Dream machine (you know like the giverment).
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