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To: epicure who wrote (175549)	11/7/2011 4:07:51 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542060

Folks inside the schools are working the process to make progress. The numbskulls outside the schools bloviating about stuff they know nothing about, well, as Ron White said so wisely..... You can't fix stupid.

To: epicure who wrote (175549)	11/7/2011 6:04:35 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 542060

When I was young I used to quote a 1936 Peabody study. I just tried to find it but? Anyway, it was done in the south somewhere and they took pre school black kids who tested below average on IQ tests and studied them, and put them in a pre school with a hot breakfast. What they found was that only 26 words (>-seems low and a 40 year memory) per day was spoken on average in the black households. Anyway, after two years in the pre school they retested the kids and their IQ's were all normal. Power of education!! 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.