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[quote=Anonymous]A lot of the gap is the cultural literacy that is fundamentally part of any set of tests.  It matters if a kid does not have a background in mythology, fables, bible stories and general history.  Most advanced reading requires some level of understanding of implied language.  Thus a person that comes to this country that has never read fairytales will not understand the term Cinderella in relation to the NCAA March Madness.  Samford Weil's turnaround on to big to fail banks is call his road to Damascus.  There is a lot of this type of cultural knowledge that many kids that are poor or not grounded in a literate culture will not get and therefore not be able to compete with their peers.  Challenge is that an approach that centralizes teaching decreases multi-cultural teaching by definition.  You have to decide if you want to protest power and stay at the bottom or join power and learn it.    This is not exactly how he put it but this was my take away when I read:

The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children

E. D. Hirsch Jr., Books[/quote]

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