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[quote=Anonymous]Bethesda Elementary is a good case example for why forced integration will most likely not change the achievement gap. For those who don't know, BES is in downtown Bethesda, in the middle of "affluenza," with a 7.6% FARMS rate. In the most recent report card, 70.3% of the overall student body was proficient in mathematics. The African-American percent proficient was 23.1% and the Latino was 55.3%. Asian was 89.7%. Look at any similar down-county school and you'll see these cross-tabs repeated. These are kids surrounded by children of high achievers, and yet, it doesn't seem to be helping. What else can a school do to close the "achievement gap"? Blindfold the asian kids? Send social workers home with the Hispanic and Af-Am kids to change the learning environment? These are structural, systemic problems that probably won't go away by remixing school populations. I could be wrong, but I doubt it.[/quote]
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