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Stop gaps: Education gaps in the Hispanic community
- 09-27-2011
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Opinion by Lily Eskelsen/Education Nation
Lily Eskelsen is the vice president of the National Education Association.
There is a gap. A canyon. A chasm. Of this there is no doubt. There is a gap, and people talk about it, but they’re usually talking about a gap between the test score averages of minority children and non-minority students. Oh my, this is the least of my concerns. A standardized test score can be useful in general tracking trends, but it’s a poor measure of the truly complex issues that face minority communities. Let’s take the Hispanic community. There’s a school readiness gap with Latino kindergarten children. The most successful students come to kindergarten knowing how to count and their colors and how to sing their ABCs. The number of words a child knows. (more...)
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