Posted on 07/01/2011 3:58:12 PM PDT by reaganaut1
To better diagnose achievement gaps and help education leaders tailor solutions, federal civil rights officials on Thursday released an expanded, searchable set of information – drawn from schools in more than 7,000 districts and representing at least three-quarters of American students.
The survey’s data show, as never before, the education inequities that hold various groups of students back.
For example, in 3,000 high schools, math classes don’t go higher than Algebra I, and in 7,300 schools, students had no access to calculus. Schools serving mostly African-American students are twice as likely to have inexperienced teachers as are schools serving mostly whites in the same district.
“Transparency is the path to reform, and it’s only through shining a bright spotlight on where opportunity gaps exist that we can really make headway on closing the achievement gap,” said Russlynn Ali, assistant secretary for civil rights in the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in a conference call with reporters Thursday.
“These data paint a portrait of a sad truth in America’s schools,” she said, “that the promise of fundamental fairness hasn’t reached whole groups of students that will need the opportunity to succeed, to get out of poverty, to ensure their dreams come true, and indeed to ensure our country’s prosperity.”
Part 1 of the 2009-10 Civil Rights Data Collection was released Thursday. Among many items, it includes whether districts offer pre-kindergarten or gifted and talented programs. It shows how many counselors each school has. And it breaks down most items into racial groups, as well as disability status and whether students are English-language learners.
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A long time ago I learned the value of a 3” wide, $100 SLIDE RULE to pass freshman Chemistry. I was never more proud of a “C” grade.
Agreed.
The fundamental problem is the 75% illegitimacy rate among minorities.
Schools need a lot of improvement, but can’t fix what the Great Society destroyed: the black family.
My daughter had to take one for the gifted program, in 2005. This is Virginia, not California.
On Tuesday she starts a 2 week intensive course in forensics through the gifted program.
I just finished working with middle and high school math teachers for a week. You have hit the nail on the head.
When I entered college I was told that Geography was a cinch course. I took a course called Physical Geography. The teacher was German with an accent you could cut with a hatchet. I sat in the front row. Took notes phonetically. It was the hardest course I ever took. Got a B- and I don’t think I was ever again so proud of my academic accomplishment.
In most states, the student has to be able to point out a “kat” and write a “for sell” ad on Craigslist. LOL
I once had an accounting teacher tell us that is is OK to be a little off with accounts. I guess that is why she taught and didn’t practice accounting.
Parents have a voice if they are not happy with Jr.’s schooling. Today’s parents don’t care.
I can believe that. It’s the outcome of giving them something for nothing in return. It’s come to be expected, and the givers are seen as stupid, ignorant and guilty.
I know there are good, qualified teachers out there. I didn’t mean to paint everyone with a broad brush, just make a statement of what I suspect. OTOH, I live in a community that’s gifted with good educators. We have our ‘school’ issues for sure. Any community does. But being a Kiwanis Golden K’r, I’m close to the school system and appreciate the work they’re doing.
No, what I said doesn’t apply everywhere, but it does apply, and more often than we appreciate.
What percentage of white students can pass Algebra II with honest tests and grades?
I bet it’s 30% or less.
And calculus? Don’t be absurd!
Calculus (real calc) is accessible to 15% of the white population (if that).
“For example, in 3,000 high schools, math classes don’t go higher than Algebra I, and in 7,300 schools, students had no access to calculus.”
Wrong!! As far as I know, ANYONE in the country can buy Saxon Math (particularly the used, hard cover, Homeschool editions) and they cover all the way through first-year Calculus.
It is up to the Zombie Parents (many of which are on this site) to figure out that they MUST take their kids’ education into their OWN HANDS, rather than leaving it in the hands of left-wing America-Hating Liberals, educated by our finest colleges - who are more than happy to see their kids fail in life (particularly if they’re white).
“Parents have a voice if they are not happy with Jr.’s schooling. Today’s parents don’t care.”
I don’t accept that premise...but I do agree that complaining against The Blob (as Thomas Sowell calls it) is futile. So it certainly may appear that parents don’t care...when, in reality, they don’t matter anyway.
I was SHOCKED to discover that if you put a condom on a cucumber that THE GIRL CAN STILL GET PREGNANT!
Didn't those teachers realize that? Why'd they lie to us?
>Why do you need algebra to spend your life hoeing and jiving.<
lemme see...
“If Lakuesha ho’d herself to Thomas for a G’ for an hour, and Shanequa ho’d herself to Thomas for another hour for 3 benjamin’s, how many b*tches did it take to make Thomas, the whiteboy smile?”
Yeah, you are right, no Algebra needed. Just simple ghetto math..
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