Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Has Sol Stern Discovered the Trick for Closing the Racial Achievement Gap? [Robert VerBruggen]
I asked the same question about the NYC schools awhile back, and the answer was "hmm, maybe they narrowed it in language a little bit, but there's no progress in math."
Stern proposes a "Marshall Plan" for reading that looks like it could narrow the gap more than the NYC schools' existing program has been. Schools everywhere should implement it.
Could it "close" the gap, though? There's no way to tell for sure — there are countless factors that contribute to racial gaps, we thoroughly understand approximately zero of them, and schools' ability to counter these factors is limited at best.
09/16 10:47 AM
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