Posted on 06/18/2020 7:37:36 PM PDT by karpov
For decades, there has been widespread anxiety over how, when or whether the educational test score gap between white and non-white youngsters could be closed. But that gap has already been closed by the Success Academy charter school network in New York City.
Their predominantly black and Hispanic students already pass tests in mathematics and English at a higher rate than any school district in the entire state. That includes predominantly white and Asian school districts where parental income is some multiple of what it is among Success Academy students.
New Yorks charter school students are predominantly black and Hispanic, and live in low-income neighborhoods. In 2019, most students in the citys public schools failed to pass the statewide tests in mathematics and English. But most of the citys charter school students passed in both subjects.
Such charter school results undermine theories of genetic determinism, claims of cultural bias in the tests and assertions that racial integration is necessary for blacks to reach educational parity with whites.
Back In 2013, a higher percentage of the fifth-graders in a Harlem charter school passed the mathematics test than any other public school fifth-graders in the entire state of New York.
The success of New York Citys charter schools is not only a threat to educational dogmas. Competition from charter schools is an existential threat to traditional public schools in low-income minority communities, which tend to have even lower educational outcomes than traditional public schools as a whole.
In a number of low-income minority communities in New York City, charter school classes and classes in traditional public schools are held in the same buildings, serving the same communities. Some of the contrasts are almost unbelievable.
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its racist..Trying to make Blacks and Hispanics “WHITE”..../s
How can you control the poor if they are educated..WE NEED MORONS,says the dem party......
Charter schools cherry pick their students; the minute a student becomes either a behavioral problem or an academic failure, they are quietly kicked out the back door to public schools, who must take everyone. Thus, the charter schools seem to have a better graduation rate.
Glad they’re covering this.
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This is how you fix the disparity in results. Dumb down the curriculum.
Government schooling is a *Big*Fat*Pimple*!
It needs to be squeezed from every side.
Re: “ parents who make that effort are also the parents far more likely to check their kids’ homework, help them with said homework, make sure they do their projects and turn them in, etc.”
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Sounds like homeschooling to me.
Gee! Maybe I am right. **ALL** academically successful children are homeschooled. This is true even if they are institutionalized for their schooling.
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