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To me this looks like racial profiling.

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but past test resoults had been collected by etnicity and every other information disappeard in the average value, that etnicity matters is something a person decided when datas were collected so before they could be studied.

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If I collect the datas by gender I'll never find the same number for males or females, I'll always find a slight difference, but thinking this means something is a common fallacy that usually afflicts gamblers for example, it's just casuality, so if I read the datas I can tell that the 3% difference between poverty and black is just a casuality maybe next year black will do better than poors.

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This was the part about racism, but I see another red hearring in the plan.
This whole plan is a way to deny state's responsibility in failing goals fixed in the former plan just telling this goals where irrealistic, so it was not political administration's fault but the problem is "you can't choose the kids you teach to". This can also be a convenient justification for future faliures: "it's not our policies were bad but the bar for that etnicity was too high".

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This connects with the race example this year's 3rd graders started from 1st grade when poicies about improving education where required so they started all on the same spot with the same legislation, it's the state faliure if they filed in what they where supposed to do.

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When they hope that "only" 21% of black kids pass they are
A Still expecting less out of black kids
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B Moving kids into the grade who are not ready for it.

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ORIGINAL: vincentML
Perhaps because you view this through the prism of racial profiling and are trying to make the testing issue fit your preconceived notion.

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School desegregation law is very insistent that states keep track of ethnic and racial populations along with poverty data and special needs data.

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That would be true if the results were based on a one off. But there is a history of this testing going back to the Bush Administration No Child Left Behind Act signed into law January 8, 2002. There is an abundance of data to show trends.

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The corollary to this plan is that schools doing poorly on the tests could apply for money grants to bring in more teachers, more experienced teachers if needed, and devise plans/techniques to improve the learning of the students. Actually, poor testing schools benefit more than good testing schools. Sorta like the NBA draft.

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Sadly, children do not all begin at the same spot in the first grade. Learning, listening, and talking skills, as well as personality begin to develop in early childhood during the first eighteen months of growth. Some children are advantaged with excellent preschool environments and parents that read to them. Unfortunately, many are not. They are left behind before they even get to the first grade. If a child is developmentally unreceptive to learning or unsocialized its success in school is already jeopardised.

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Black third-graders are expected to go from 79 percent passing in math in 2013 to 88.5 percent in 2018, while whites are expected to go from 91.5 percent in 2013 to 95.4 percent in 2018.

Read it carefully. Black third grade test success is expected to improve by 9.5% while white thrid grade improvement is expected to be only 4% MORE is expected of the black schools than of the white schools. So, how is that racially detrimental to blacks?

The premise of the title of the thread and the original post were just plain mistaken.

If you set the same end standard for the black student schools you would be requiring a leap of 16.4 percentage points. While the white schools only were expected to improve by 4%
That is pretty damn unrealistic. It is punishing to the black schools.

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I read and carefully all the article and understood it, I can assure you I'm not an illitterate and my english comprension level is enough to see this, even if it's not my language, so please do not suppose that my ideas comes from a lack of comprehension.

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if the goal of education is just to learn how to read, write and count this are poor goals, that were enough for the 19th century not for the 21st.

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This is the red herring part I already talked about, they where supposed to reach goals even before and when FAILED they just declared this where irrealistic, this goals are again on paper so if pubblic administration fails again they can deny their responsibility and say the goals where again irrealistic.