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Persistent Gaps
September 17, 2010
But the end is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the beloved community. It is this type of spirit and this type of love that can transform opposers into friends.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, 1929-1968
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, 1929-1968
A new report on initiatives to narrow the gap between black and white children, Achievement Gaps, explores reasons for the nation's stalled progress in closing the achievement gap between black students and their white peers....
"... while the black-white achievement gap began narrowing dramatically in the 1970s, the trend ended in the late 1980s, and the gap has persisted ever since. Factors that may contribute to the lack of progress include inadequate care in early childhood, declining communities and neighborhoods, growth in single-parent families, continuing unemployment among black males, and stagnant rates of inter-generational mobility out of seriously disadvantaged neighborhoods."
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Comments (3)
Displaying All 3 CommentsHalifax, NS, Canada
Very interested about current information on child care administration and children with diverse needs
University Lecturer
Kampala, East Africa, Uganda
Indeed the rights of children are universal with just a few variations in the way deficiencies in provision manifest. the challenges in the article are true to the situations in uganda. besides, there is still limited knowledge about the need for care for young children. Child care institutions are for profit making and give inadequate opportunity for child stimulation and creativity. Policy issues and enforcement of guidelines are still un resolved..... equity of services is a big challenge and the gap between those that can afford and those that can not is further widening due to economic factors.
Your articles have enriched my lectures and i sometimes use them as reference materials for my students. Thanks so much.
Canada
I'm amazed that academic statistics are kept in the U.S. according to skin colour in the first place. Aren't children simply children? Categorizing them according to whether they are black or white, and assessing their academic performance on that basis, seems to create more barriers in the constant struggle to erase stereotypes. Certainly the other issues you've mentioned bear investigation, but these are linked to poverty and disadvantage, and not necessarily skin colour.
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