http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/29/upshot/money-race-and-success-how-your-school-district-compares.html?action=click&contentCollection=upshot®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&smid=tw-upshotnyt&smtyp=cur&_r=0
An interesting interactive map that showcases the role that money, race, and success play in our children's education. Extremely wealthy towns like Lexington and Carlisle are at the very top, nationwide. You can search for Melrose in the box.
While known, it is still incredible how much of a disparity there is between kids' success and what level of income, and what race/ethnic background they come from.
Good read as well.
You can draw your own conclusions.
It's amazing what happens when good, accurate information is shared. No one is arguing now.
Well done, Food for Thiught, well done!
You say good information! This is common sense - my 10 year old niece had figured this one out already! Tell us how to fix the problem.
How about the words that may lead to solutions, "Personal Responsibility". Taking responsible for your own personal decisions and actions and not using excuses for your own failures and lack of effort for self-improvement.
Another set of words that may lead to solutions,"Striving to be Self-Sufficient". Instead of believing in "government entitlements" and "government handouts", strive towards self-achievement and self-investment.
With some segments of our population having 50-70% of the children out of wedlock and headed by a single parent, poverty becomes almost an automatic conclusion, yet our society accepts this condition rather than frowning on it and demanding, yes, I said demanding that men fulfill their parental obligations instead of relying on government programs which condone and encourage such reckless behavior. We all have experienced the results of broken homes and families and the resulting catastrophic consequences it has had on family life and student growth and development.
Instead of a "War on Poverty" our government has instituted a "War for Poverty", ensuring that we have a permanent "lower class" being sustained by government programs which were originally intended to be a brief support system until self-improvement kicked in. Now we have generations of families living on these programs for their entire life. The drug problem today is only a manifestation of this issue and the hopelessness people feel about their existence. This support was never intended to be an "American way of life" - yet here we are at the crossroads of socialism versus capitalism. Which way will we go - the Democrats have made their decision,let's see what the people have to say in the next presidential election in November!
An interesting interactive map that showcases the role that money, race, and success play in our children's education. Extremely wealthy towns like Lexington and Carlisle are at the very top, nationwide. You can search for Melrose in the box.
While known, it is still incredible how much of a disparity there is between kids' success and what level of income, and what race/ethnic background they come from.
Good read as well.
You can draw your own conclusions.
The elephant in the room, from the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education:
"For both blacks and whites, family income is one of the best predictors of a student’s SAT score. Students from families with high incomes tend to score higher. Students from low-income families on average have low SAT scores. Because the median black family income in the United States is about 60 percent of the median family income of whites, one would immediately seize upon this economic statistic to explain the average 200-point gap between blacks and whites on the standard SAT scoring curve.
But income differences explain only part of the racial gap in SAT scores. For black and white students from families with incomes of more than $200,000 in 2008, there still remains a huge 149-point gap in SAT scores. Even more startling is the fact that in 2008 black students from families with incomes of more than $200,000 scored lower on the SAT test than did students from white families with incomes between $20,000 and $40,000.
But the fact is that even when family income levels are similar, we are still comparing black and white students who are as different as apples and oranges in terms of educational sophistication, family educational heritage, family wealth, and access to educational tools and resources. The average white family in the same income group is far better equipped than the average black family to prepare their children for success on the SAT test."
Juxtapose with the Times in 1998, where the facts stated would now be considered hate speech.
https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/j/jencks-gap.html
If I were Asian, I'd be pretty upset at how little attention is paid to THEIR needs.
But feel free to continue to status signal to your heart's content and feel better about yourself.