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To: Dale Baker who wrote (175541)	11/7/2011 4:06:14 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542050

I agree. What can we do? At least internally the schools are changing and trying to adapt to the challenges they face. Closing the achievement gap, between white students and hispanics and blacks, is a huge priority now. And that is as it should be. We have noticed, in the academy I work in, that we are closing the gap. Our minority students performed above the level of white students in our school. Now there may be selection bias at work here, or other factors- and these always complicate the picture (not that anyone really wants to focus on that- they'd rather have an "answer")- but at least we are trying, and we are changing, and we are trying to find ways to meaningfully measure the changes we make. It's a process.