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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is how American schools want to "close the achievement gap".

[b]They never think they should increase the length of the school year, or increase the hours in the school day [/b]or  make underachieving students (of all races) get intensive tutoring or mentoring.  No.  Their solution is to create a quota system and have different criteria of selection for different groups, or dumb down the curriculum or make the reporting of grades so general as to be useless.

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Kids in the US are already in school for more hours per year than kids in a lot of other countries.[/quote]
Well, as they are always comparing the US with countries in the top 10 on the PISA test, and many happen to be Asian countries, a lot of kids in a lot of the Asian countries spend a lot of time in cram schools after school.  So, compared to them, our kids don't spend much time in school at all.  Our kids also get a less rigorous curriculum because of it.  I don't mind.  I don't want my kid to be spending all day in school, but if some kids need to spend extra time in school, or after school tutoring, and it's free, the parents should encourage it.[/quote]

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