Posted on 03/22/2009 8:55:19 PM PDT by Steelfish
Multiracial Pupils to Be Counted in New Groups
By Michael Alison Chandler and Maria Glod
Washington Post Staff Writers March 23, 2009
Public schools in the Washington region and elsewhere are abandoning their check-one-box approach to gathering information about race and ethnicity in an effort to develop a more accurate portrait of classrooms transformed by immigration and interracial marriage.
Next year, they will begin a separate count of students who are of more than one race.
For many families in the District, Montgomery and other local counties that have felt forced to deny a part of their children's heritage, the new way of counting, mandated by the federal government, represents a long-awaited acknowledgment of their identity:
Enrollment forms will allow students to identify as both white and American Indian, for example, or black and Asian.
But changing labels will make it harder to monitor progress of groups that have trailed in school, including black and Hispanic students.
Racial and ethnic information, collected when children register for school, can inform school board decisions on reading programs, discipline procedures or admissions policies for gifted classes.
The government looks at test scores of minority groups to help determine whether schools make the grade under the No Child Left Behind law.
In an increasingly data-driven culture, educators also scrutinize such test scores and enrollment figures to pick programs meant to narrow achievement gaps and equalize academic opportunity.
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Aww, we’re going to lose track of who’s failing. That’s absolutely unthinkable.
How about we stop trying to square-hole people for the purposes of subsidization and instead let the chips fall where they may.
I know, stupid proposition. How dare I.
That’s a stupid proposition. How dare you!...
“Racial and ethnic information, collected when children register for school, can inform school board decisions on reading programs, discipline procedures or admissions policies for gifted classes.”
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what the hell?
Just more liberal gobbledegook. It makes absolutely no sense, never does, regardless of what the issue they are trying to explain.
And why was this important in the first place?
I’m going to start checking more than one box, too.
Citizen
Legal immigrant / student visa.Illegal alien.
Oh, right, a lot of these kids don't know who their father is...
I was nonplussed when I got my son’s sheet — I put American
I always scratch out everything else, and write American in large letters on any form that asks my “ethnicity”. I’ve never been called on it, either. I don’t think people know how to deal with it—LOL1
There is no such race/ethinic group as Hispanic. It was made up by the Dems in the 1970s so they could create another victim class and provide special privileges and benefits to whites. The Census Bureau has created another artificial category, i.e., non-Hispanic whites.
“But changing labels will make it harder to monitor progress of groups that have trailed in school, including black and Hispanic students.”
Head start already tries to cover for the number if black males and delays their being placed in programs that will help them. Uf it looks bad for black males we must cover up the problem. Then the schools get the blame, not the Feds.
This ACTUALLY makes some sense!
When “MOM” is a natural blond, while Dad is Hispanic, on his father’s side... Why should the Department of Education & the NEA be able to class those Kids as NEEDING “English as a 2nd Language” assistance?
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