In this episode, Paula Johnson, M.A., discusses these issues and the potential civil rights red flags that are raised by data showing Hispanic and
Black students across grade levels are one and a half times more likely to be retained than White students.
On average, both Hispanic and
Black students across grade levels are one and one half times more likely to be retained than White students (see graph).
Not exact matches
White
students in the district outperform white
students across the state on all tests at all
grade levels, and
black students outperform other
black students across the state on most state tests.
Looking
across ELA and math scores on state exams for New York City
students in
grades three through eight in 2003, the achievement gap separating
black and Latino
students from white and Asian
students was.74 of a standard deviation.
For example,
across grades and subjects, the District of Columbia has the widest gaps in performance between white and
black students and serves the highest concentration of
black students in the nation.