Education Gap

[ny_quant]

a new report focusing on black males suggests that the picture is even bleaker than generally known.

Only 12 percent of black fourth-grade boys are proficient in reading, compared with 38 percent of white boys, and only 12 percent of black eighth-grade boys are proficient in math, compared with 44 percent of white boys.

Poverty alone does not seem to explain the differences: poor white boys do just as well as African-American boys who do not live in poverty, measured by whether they qualify for subsidized school lunches.

Comments

[southwest]

Статья не оголтело-расистская, там же пишут:  The ... racial differences ... have to do with a lot of sociological and historical forces. In order to address those, we have to be able to have conversations ... about early childhood parenting practices, ... the activities that parents conduct with their 2-, 3- and 4-year-olds. How much we talk to them, the ways we talk to them, the ways we enforce discipline, the ways we encourage them to think and develop a sense of autonomy.

[ny-quant.livejournal.com]

Эээ ... А я разве сказал, что она оголтело-расистская? Или даже неоголтело?

[southwest]

читаю между строк, но с трудом и с ошибками :)