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"GoodNewsBaltimore" <GoodNewsBaltimore@com.com> wrote in message
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> makemyday@worldnet.att.net wrote in
> news:415E78E9.6542C9AF@worldnet.att.net:
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> > What this *really* shows is that teachers, of half the nation's
> > public school students, became more adept at "teaching to the test"
> > and/or cheating.
>
>
> Or that, faced with something positive, you will find something
> pessimistic to say no matter what.

Anything positive you hear about the gap is just a load of PC feel good crap written to
take the heat off of those causing the problem.

Excerpt from: Black parents' summit aims at education gap
By THOMAS C. TOBIN, Times Staff Writer
Published October 1, 2004

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/10/01/Tampabay/Black_parents__summit.shtml

...The gap between black and white students is wider in Pinellas than in any large county
in Florida. Only 27 percent of the county's black students scored at their grade level in
the 2004 reading FCAT. That contrasts with 61 percent of white students who scored at
grade level in reading, a gap of 34 percentage points.

The black-white gap in math was 39 percent.

Researchers point to a connection between parenting and the gap. In a 1999 survey by the
National Center for Education Statistics, 54 percent of U.S. black parents said they
attended a school event during the year compared to 72 percent of white parents.

The survey also showed that black parents were less likely than white parents to read to
their children at home, and that black children watch far more television than white
children.

Some researchers say poverty and the high number of single-parent black homes are among
the reasons black parents do not spend more time readying children for school and
participating in school activities. Other studies indicate many black parents feel
alienated from their children's schools and don't emphasize academics at home.

Often, some researchers say, black students view academic success as "acting white." ...

We can't have our blacks acting white now, that would be racist.

Sincerely,
Stubbs