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Did you read the part where he pointed out that black/brown students are 66% less likely to be in a gifted program with the same test scores ?
by jeremyjh 4y ago
Did you read the part where he pointed out that black/brown students are 66% less likely to be in a gifted program with the same test scores ?
- zmgsabst 4y agoIs that because the program discriminates or because their family lacks awareness of such programs? Those have very different solutions.
- MisterBastahrd 4y agoSchools literally send home papers to parents and communicate with them directly about the programs. Most school districts require parental permission before children are pulled out of class to be tested.
- flerchin 4y agoHe said similar, and he didn't provide the data. We surely would like to delve into why this might be happening. We can know for certain that there is no skin-color criterion in the program selection.
- _gabe_ 4y agoI just left a comment as a reply to this post because that statistic intrigued me. I had to go hunting for the actual paper, and when I finally found it it seems to suggest that discrepancy is because the study lumped students who have access to gifted programs with students that don't have access. Additionally it identified that 83% of black students had access to a gifted program as opposed to 91% or something of white students. Additionally the study cited says that they had several gaps in their data and used some statistical regressions to fill in those gaps. All this leads me to believe that we need to provide more access to gifted programs, and the problem isn't that we have a herd of racist teachers on the loose.