Lately in the news there has been much debate about the widening gap in test scores between white and minoriti

Question

Lately in the news there has been much debate about the widening gap in test scores between white and minorities in the public school system. What type of plan can be develop to solve this?

Answer 1

Depends, is your question refering to the minority getting worse test scores? Or is it white?
I'm Hispanic, and I've always gotten 5s (highest score) on the FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test).
Now, I don't know about the rest, but maybe the minority are getting bad test scores because the teachers - who may or may not be racist - don't prepare them enough.
White people have always been seen as the surpreme race by other white people, and since we're the "minority," we don't really have a say in this. However, we can try to help.
I suggest that teachers be observed during class hours (hidden camera, maybe?) to see how they deal with white people and the minority. Should there be a difference in how they treat the whites and the minorities (major difference, like giving more homework or less help to the minorities), then they'll be caught. I don't know what comes next, since I havn't examined the school policies for discrimination, however, the teacher will be punished.
Hope that answers your question!

Answer 2

This argument has gone on for over 40 years in public schools. No one will admit the real answer because no one will want to face the facts.

We tried dumbing down the testing, several times, and people still lag behind.

When you look at groups, not individuals, there seems to be an ongoing problem. This is across the economic spectrum, not just kids in the inner city cores.

Answer 3

do not confuse income with wealth (2 distinctive issues - attempt to pay interest). families that began out prosperous can hand down modern wealth to their descendants (as an occasion, white human beings). Upwardly cellular families (including black and hispanic) might have their income strengthen by using successive generations yet they're nonetheless enjoying seize-up. So notwithstanding in the event that they have been to make as plenty money as somebody else their 'average wealth' may be much less (as an occasion, you're repaying your pupil loans mutually as yet another person had their training paid for, even nonetheless the two considered one of you're making the comparable sales). Your question is in simple terms too simplistic. Economics won't have the ability to be summed up so incredibly. Entiendes?

Answer 4

They should teach the children in the classroom instead of expecting the parents to do it at home. The children whose parents may be uneducated or not good teachers, are at a disadvantage in the present system where students are expected to learn academics at home. Besides, if the teacher can't teach the child in the 6-7 hours when the child is in school, how are parents supposed to do it (or even the child alone) when the child is tired after school?
There should be no homework in elementary school, and not much in middle school. By high school, students are old enough that homework may have value.

Answer 5

Economics are the only reliable predictor of success in the classroom.

The second greatest factor is expectation...from society, schools, homes, students themselves. There is such a stigma attached to being perceived as bright for some minority students. I hear the kids making fun of their peers for trying to "act white."

Education is the only way to escape poverty...white, black, brown, or yellow.

Politicians have no business trying to set education methods and goals without funding their band aid pronouncements and unfunded mandates.

Answer 6

Have completely segregated schools with minority teaching staff and school administration as well as student body. Then see which one has the higher test scores. If all things are equal and the only difference is the color of the peoples skin then what else can you determine but that it's a genetic flaw and not racial prejudice!

Answer 7

Hm? In actuality, that disparity has been narrowing, with whites test scores dropping whilst minorities appear to be improving slightly. First thing let's do - lets get politics out of public education!

Answer 8

get the drugs, guns, violence, hatered, racism, and pay the teachers a decent wage, with benefits then maybe just maybe things will start to change, but i see no cure in the near future.

Answer 9

Try harder