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[quote=Anonymous][quote]You are not generalizing facts, you are generalizing the cause of certain facts/outcomes (Ex: AA's perform worse on standardized test bc they care less about education)

Are you suggesting that if people of color "cared" more about education, we could solve the achievement gap? I actually like that idea. We should tell all these experts that have spent careers studying the causes of disparities in education, income, wealth, etc... that the solution is people should just "care" more.[/quote]

I'm not the PP you responded to but you are missing several things.

Lower SES homes are correlated with parents who have less education. Parents who have less education either lack the skills and/or motivation to help their children succeed in school. Standards in public schools do not require significant intelligence. The standards can be met pretty easily with hard work, practice, and a student receiving support. Yes if an urban AA family or white rural family or suburban hispanic parents put forth more effort to take their kids to the library, finish high school, and avail themselves of every free learning opportunity the way many asian and african immigrant families do then the achievement gap would be much lower, They don't so the only alternative is for schools to try to make up what is missing at home. This is very time intensive and requires more than a lower teacher/student ratio. It requires high quality preschool programs, after school homework clubs that are more than study hall, year round school, and motivational practices in school and consequences for not doing the school work.

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