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Essentially, the performance gap disappeared when the students formed study groups ("learning groups" in this article). The students were not selected from the
by winestock 15y ago
Essentially, the performance gap disappeared when the students formed study groups ("learning groups" in this article). The students were not selected from the general population, but from UC Berkeley undergraduates. Let's see if anyone can replicate these results on a large scale in average American public high schools.
- rockarage 15y agoWell you're have to find a group of students who are willing to spend long hours studying so they can excel academically and that's much easier to do at universities. I think the intellectual background of many "Black" and "Hispanic" students are different. Their is a strong emphasis on being so called "street smart" instead of excelling academically. So they desire to excel at being a hustler. That problem is compounded with the entertainment industry where many of the successful rappers have a criminal history and they glorify hustling and the thug life. This is frustrating because there are "Blacks" and "Hispanics" that are academics and intellectuals, but their accomplishments is mostly ignored in the noise of pop culture. Many kids get a perverted view of what they should strive for and how they should act. Meaning all of sudden being black becomes synonymous with hustling on the streets, the hard knock life while studying and being clean cut makes you far worst than a nerd, it makes you an uncle tom, a sell out.