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[quote=Anonymous]The obsession with the "gap" is misplaced. Even Jay Matthews rejects it. I don't agree with a lot of what he says but he is right about this.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/why-i-reject-the-american-obsession-with-achievement-gaps/2016/06/12/4831d636-2dff-11e6-9b37-42985f6a265c_story.html?utm_term=.a2f828c15f86

[b]"The national champion of achievement gaps, scoring pretty close to zero in the difference between whites and those two minorities on that scale, was Detroit.

Detroit is our nation’s worst school district, or close to it. Yet it tops this list because its white students are as poor and disadvantaged as its black and Hispanic students. It wins first prize in a weird contest that, I think, should be discontinued."[/b]

... "We should instead be looking at how each group is doing, celebrating gains and addressing declines without comparing groups with different issues. I applaud programs that raise achievement for low-income and minority students, but also note that our best-performing students have sometimes not made the same progress. There shouldn’t be a ceiling on achievement."

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