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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Citywide, hispanics outperformed blacks on math (28 vs 21) and ELA (32 vs 25), and for many of these kids, English is their second language. Ouch.

These numbers are absolutely atrocious.[/quote]

I find this fact fascinating.  My theory is that  the predominance of AAVE (African American Vernacular English) as the dominant home language of much of DCPS AA population has a dramatic negative effect on ELA scores.  While teachers may correct grammar in written work, but they are not doing it relentlessly in the classroom because to do so in DCPS would immediately get you labelled a racist.  The Latino kids are learning English from television and from teachers, so while they may pick up their own grammatical bad habits from their AA peers, since many schools with large Latino populations also have large AA populations, they still aren't being double-exposed to bad grammar both at school AND at home.

And yes, there are lots and lots of SES factors such as poverty, no value placed on education etc. which factor in as well, but teachers will not hesitate to correct the grammar of a child who comes from a non-English speaking home, but many (perhaps most) will not do it with an AA child.[/quote]

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