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[quote=Anonymous][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]
[b]I agree, but it’s not like low income kids grow up in Africa or India or wherever. 
They grow up here. If they don’t know baseball rules, they maybe know something basic about pumpkin pie, or any pie or anything baking.
If they don’t know about sleep away camps, they should know about camping or sleepovers. [/b]
It is sad they don’t have any background knowledge, but this is not an excuse to ditch all the tests. [/quote]

I agree. Their background knowledge isn’t  that lacking. Low income kids tend to watch a lot of TV. They certainly get enough exposure to understand that a baseball game is a sport, pumpkin pie is something you eat, and they get the gist of sleep away camp. Even kids who are recent immigrants come with a decent amount of background knowledge about American culture, because most countries (especially in Latin America) show a lot of American TV. [/quote]

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