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>White students accounted for 58% of enrollment in gifted programs, although they made up 22% of enrollment in the nation’s public school system, according to n
by twobitshifter 4y ago
>White students accounted for 58% of enrollment in gifted programs, although they made up 22% of enrollment in the nation’s public school system, according to nationwide data for the 2017-2018 school year collected by the Department of Education.
Is it true that only 22% of public school students are white? The population of the us in 61% white, so this shocked me.
- dnissley 4y agoYeah, this seems to be a mistake. Looking around at various sources it seems to actually be around 46%: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cge/racial-ethnic-enrollment https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cge/racial-ethnic...
- jon_richards 4y agoIs appears to be 22% in CA. 46% in the US as a whole.
- gnicholas 4y agoOf course, if advanced learning opportunities continue to dwindle in public schools, you can expect that the parents who care about it will flee for charter, private, and homeschooling. Or at least those who can afford to will flee. The advanced students whose parents can't afford these other opportunities will be the ones who will suffer at a misguided attempt to increase equity. The true result will be largely a leveling-down of these students to their less-advanced peers. The beneficiaries will be wealthier students who will receive advanced education elsewhere, and whose academic achievements will be relatively more stellar than their erstwhile peers.