tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004193.post113613666233918786..comments2024-03-29T02:25:16.047-05:00Comments on Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas: Achievement Gap: Addressing classism will improve school performanceAngela Valenzuelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16377527828841110131noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004193.post-1136253005140478742006-01-02T19:50:00.000-06:002006-01-02T19:50:00.000-06:00You can spend all the money you want on the poor b...You can spend all the money you want on the poor but it will not overcome this simple fact as reported in the Washington Post:<BR/><BR/><I>But data showed that the children of middle-class black parents still scored below the children of middle-class white parents. The 1994 National Assessment of Educational Progress 12th-grade reading score, for instance, showed the black-white gap larger for students with a parent with a college degree than it was for students whose parents had no high school diploma</I><BR/><BR/>What amount of social engineering spending will make up for cultures that devalue academic learning? My guess is that the answer quickly converges to infinity.Superdestroyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14708119879383713312noreply@blogger.com