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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So the takeaway for all of this is that some black kids are basically doomed because unless we can take them away at birth then there's no amount of intervention that's gonna be enough to close the gap caused by poor parenting?

That sounds like an awful problem. And it sounds like the solution to that awful problem is not to dumb down education for everyone to fit the lowest performing students.[/quote]

I think the takeaway should be that school grades are the problem. Why should a kid be expected to master certain topics within a year? Especially if we know that doesn't work for lower income students.

Grades - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, ect should be eliminated. Classes can be made using criteria that each individual school wants (esol, standardized test scores, random, ect) And the focus should be on mastering skills/concepts before moving on to the next level. So for example, Larla takes two years to master 1st grade math but 1 year to master language arts. By the time Larla gets to high school she will have a much better foundation and her educational outcome will improve. [/quote]

larla will be a 23 year old freshman, but she'll have the foundation mastered [/quote]

:P [/quote]

Either that or Larla will have dropped out when she was 18 in the ninth grade.  Mastery based grading makes sense in theory but it’s akin to holding kids back a grade and that leads to higher rates of high school drop out.  And also having taught a class with 15 year old girls and 22 year old boys, it is not a good mix.[/quote]

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