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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Post's Jay Matthews weighs in on magnets:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/gifted-programs-slight-minorities-and-dont-accelerate-kids-why-have-them/2021/09/30/8528d188-2134-11ec-9309-b743b79abc59_story.html

A remarkable dissection of gifted education in Ohio that was just released reveals disturbing gaps in long-term learning for Black and impoverished students who were in the top 20 percent on third-grade tests.

The research done by Michigan State University economist Scott Imberman shows that students in the top 20 percent of those tested while third-graders were much less likely to be identified as gifted, stay among the highest achievers, take the ACT college admission test and attend college if they were Black or low-income students.

“Thousands of early high-achieving children — including smart kids of poor and working-class parents from places like Cincinnati, Dayton, or Mansfield, Ohio — are going adrift as they make their way through middle and high school,” Fordham Institute president Michael J. Petrilli and Ohio research director, Aaron Churchill said in a foreword to the report.

“This not only limits these kids’ opportunities to move up the social ladder, but also threatens the nation’s economic competitiveness and derails our aspirations for a more just society where children from all backgrounds can become inventors, doctors, and business leaders,” the officials said.

Imberman said that only 47 percent of low-income students and 41 percent of Black students in the top 20 percent of those tested in third grade later took ACT tests for college, compared with 71 percent of non-impoverished students in that group. Only 35 percent of low-income students and 26 percent of Black students in that group went to four-year colleges.[/quote]

I really have no idea what exactly is the argument and conclusion in this article. It seems to have some data and ends with a dig on kids and their parents. No real connection between the arguments/data and conclusion. It may very well be that my comprehension skills need help though...[/quote]

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