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To: epicure who wrote (43643)	11/21/2007 8:17:33 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540841

Iktomi, your school has at least one superb mind on staff and you may be right about inner city schools having crap teachers, but, given that as a truth, the point of my post and the thrust of the articles that I listed may indicate that even with better teachers the average minority students would not score as well as the average white and Asian students on our standardized tests. That's the question; if "[r]esearch has shown that American Indian and African American students are primarily right-brained in learning styles, while Anglo and Asian students are primarily left-brained," and if you consider that the process of testing, not to mention sequential learning, is certainly a left brained process then what's the solution to equalizing educational success among various bodies of students? I think we're pushing a string. In my typical lazy fashion, I arrived at that conclusion years ago without ever researching it. It now appears that there is credible research to buttress that theory and, if we take that research seriously, the "fix" will require more than throwing money at those schools to make the old parts work more efficiently; it will require designing and implement innovative new teaching and testing strategies. And even that may not do the trick. Ed