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February 2, 2012Quote of the Day
Today’s NJ Spotlight on NJ’s achievement gap between “low income kids and everyone else”:
In elementary school language arts, for instance, the gap between low-income students and everyone else is close to 30 percentage points, up from 26 points seven years ago. Among third graders in the state’s poorest districts, barely 40 percent passed the state’s reading and writing test.
“The bottom line is the achievement gap is wide throughout the state,” said Arcelio Aponte, the state board’s president. “Although maybe trending up in some cases, it’s still a 30 percent gap. How could anyone find that acceptable?”
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The real problem which remains unacknowledged by education “reformers”:
“In America, we don't have an education crisis; rather we have a poverty crisis. The latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) scores indicate that American schools that serve few low-income students rank higher than the world's top-scoring advanced industrial countries. But when they are averaged with the scores of schools with high poverty rates, the United States sinks to the middle of the pack. At nearly 22 percent and rising, the child-poverty rate in the United States is the highest among wealthy nations in the world.”
From: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-rebell/us-schools-have-a-poverty_b_1247635.html