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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Then why, with all this great teaching going on in Title 1 schools, is their a persistent diversity gap and SAT scores are in decline in the County?  Seriously.  The magic happens - despite real efforts I’m sure by some teachers - at cram school (Kumon, Mathnesium, Linda-mood Bell). This seems like a lot of teacher posturing going on.  In the end, it is what the Vietnamese call the ‘homework’ table that gets the job done.  https://www.google.de/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/04/08/forget-tiger-moms-asian-american-students-succeed-because-its-expected-say-scholars/%3foutputType=amp[/quote]

All the teaching of the world is not enough when there are few role models, low expectations, and - the horror!- the g-word???[/quote]

I actually have come to the conclusion that the tests are culturally biased.  I was reading an article about academic “skills” v content knowledge.  It gave the example of people asked to answer questions after reading or being told a story about a baseball game.  It was like “A hit a single to right field, B struck out, C hit a double to left, etc”. The people who could answer the questions best and remember the story and details from the story were the people who knew the most about baseball before reading the story, not the people who were the “best” readers.  No test only tests “skills.”  They inevitably also test content knowledge that the test makers “expect” to be accessible to kids of that age - generally based on middle class white cultural expectations.  Anyway, I’ve been following this for a while, not professionally, and that’s what I’ve come to believe.  It’s hidden tests of content knowledge that higher SES kids are getting at home, on trips, on vacation, at camps, etc.[/quote]

I agree. I teach in a high FARMS school and the stuff we see on tests is very culturally biased. A passage about sleep away camp (or camping), then a passage about American football, then one about making pumpkin pie. They are written as though everyone has experience with those topics. If they don’t have the background knowledge on those topics then they’re already at a disadvantage on those assessments. It’s not like sleepaway camp, football and pumpkin pie are all part of the curriculum, so they’re being tested on content knowledge. They’re being tested on skills unrelated to content knowledge and the assessments don’t provide a level playing field. [/quote]

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