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In article <415ebff7_3@newspeer2.tds.net>,
 "Mr Stubbs" <tstubbs@pokeymon.com> wrote:

> 
> "GoodNewsBaltimore" <GoodNewsBaltimore@com.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns957661B6E38E1GoodNewsBaltimore@216.196.97.142...
> > makemyday@worldnet.att.net wrote in
> > news:415E78E9.6542C9AF@worldnet.att.net:
> >
> > > 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.

Simple solution, put FCAT tutoring on TV.