Posted on 08/17/2024 6:53:32 AM PDT by karpov
In 2019, the four-year graduation rate of all University of California (UC) undergraduates was 72.9 percent, while that of black UC students lagged behind at 59.9 percent. This disparity was emblematic of broader imbalances in college preparedness: In 2019, 74 percent of Asian Americans, 53.8 percent of whites, 36.1 percent of Latinos, 25.9 percent of American Indians, and 23.7 percent of blacks in California were prepared for college or professional careers according to the state’s “college and career indicator” factors.
This unfortunate deficit was a result of persistent achievement gaps at the K-12 level. A CalMatters analysis in 2020 revealed divergent high-school graduation rates among different student groups in California: 94 percent for Asian Americans, 88.4 percent for whites, 82.1 percent for Latinos, 76.8 percent for blacks, and 74.8 percent for American Indians. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NAEP), there was a 36-point gap in math scores and a 23-point gap in reading scores between white and black eighth-graders.
The California Smarter Balanced Test results in 2022 failed to close longstanding achievement gaps among students in grades 3-8 and 11. Compared to white and Asian students, who had 61.36-percent and 75.27-percent reading proficiency rates, respectively, only 30.33 percent of black students were reading at grade level.
Education reformers and policy analysts should at least agree on two things. One, the public education system in California is failing all students. Two, the system failure impacts socioeconomically disadvantaged students and non-white/Asian students disproportionately. Fierce disagreements arise over the desired solutions to low performance and learning gaps.
With an understanding that the issues have nuanced root causes, often beyond the control of the education realm, serious observers unbound by ideology argue for long-term policy redress to revive competitiveness, uphold standards, and improve instruction across the board.
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If parents valued education, the grad rates would be higher.
Until the culture and values of each ‘disadvantaged’ group changes, nothing will change. It’s not complicated.
If parents valued education they’d ensure their kids got one.
And likely not in a publik skrewl.
An high percentage of kids leaving high school are unprepared for college. High school students used to be taught Greek, trigonometry, and Euclidean geometry. Now the colleges are teaching them remedial math and remedial English. But this isn’t new. It was the same when I started college in 1991 and it is only getting worse.
If it’s the typical DemocRat “solution”, the bill will require professors to artificially inflate the grade of the “underprivileged” class so that they don’t flunk out.
I thought “inclusion” would help failing students succeed. Looks like it’s turned the potentially successful into failures.
Whoda thunkit?
Where’s daddy?
Everything starts in the home. Without a daddy and mama’s flavor of the week, it is no wonder black kids are falling behind. If a kid is taught how to behave, usually they won’t act out in public. Remember that psa, “It is 10 pm, do you know where your kids are”? When mama can’t be bothered to make sure Junior is up and ready for school with his completed homework in hand, then he can be hanging on the corner or dead in a bar ditch for all anyone knows. As long as the black community values street cred over all else, well, there’s no hope.
Exactly. All the parents care about these days is that their kid gets a diploma even if they are dumber than the day they started school. They want the kid to grow up and get a diploma so they can throw their ass out of the house.
Inclusion was a disaster. Back in the 70s, Dallas, TX, in all their liberalness stupidity decided they’d bus the black kids to white schools and the whites to black schools. And to make it worse, they’d shuffle kids around to different schools each year until their senior year when they could finally attend their neighborhood school (we lived 4 houses from Jr H and HS). If you are in a new school every year, you can’t make friends so you’re constantly the new kid so why bother trying to fit in. Shock, there was violence every day. Instead of 5 minutes between classes to get your books and go to the restroom, it was cut to 3 minutes. Big metal gates were installed in the halls and they’d be locked so no one could roam the halls. The teacher would lock the classroom door and someone would come around to check from the outside. Yeah, yeah, who cares about fire codes.
Surprise, we were in what was called the White Flight out of Dallas. Many years later, I drove around the old neighborhood and made sure to have the windows up and doors locked. It was unrecognizable. In my day it was mostly whites and hispanics.
Just checked greatschools.org and sure enough blacks and hispanics are about 50-50 and white kids at 2%. Test scores are below average when it once was an excellent school. When you get down to brass tacks, the only reason for low performance is the racial make up.
Better grades, better successful citizens start at home. If mama AND daddy gave a flying fig about their kids, they’d actually parent them.
“The Bell Curve” is worth a read.
“With an understanding that the issues have nuanced root causes, often beyond the control of the education realm, serious observers unbound by ideology argue for long-term policy redress to revive competitiveness, uphold standards, and improve instruction across the board.”
Isn’t the usual “fix” to throw more money into the government schools? That should take care of it (until the next study comes out).
The universities will go along because it keeps the kids who should flunk out, in school and paying inflated tuition for worthless degrees. And then in turn the DemocRats will offer to “cancel” their debt because the grads can pay.
See a pattern here? Democrats propose a solution where there really is not which creates a real problem to which they have a “solution”, which again only makes the problem worse because kids will get more worthless degrees expecting the government to rescue them. Around and around it goes.
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