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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you study the achievement gap, you’ll know that high school isn’t the issue. Neither is calculus. Neither is TJ (although whether we should have public, selective high schools and what their admission process should be is a separate and valid issue). The problem is in the early grades.

Plus nobody believes advanced calculus is the ticket to great wealth. [/quote]

Sorry, but if you add in early childhood research the pattern is set before age 2.

By age 2 Hispanic children are the same a white in socialization but behind in vocabulary (in home language).

There are initiatives to teach parents patterns of interaction that raise this (serve and return conversations etc)

It is set very very early and the gap is there well before Kindergarten.[/quote]

Sorry, not sorry.  And not convinced by your weak argument.

For decades, pols pushed for more money to be thrown at expensive “head start” programs.

The money’s been spent, but it has not meaningfully changed things.  So your premise is faulty.[/quote]

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