The GAO has worked with both the Department of Education and the Department of Justice to recommend they «routinely analyze» and collect federal civil rights data to uncover disparities among
the education of different racial groups.
Not exact matches
(breeding and
education designed to produce only the best individual types) and
racial eugenics (the
grouping or intermixing
of different ethnic types being not left to chance but effected as a controlled process in the proportions most beneficial to humanity as a whole), both, as I well know, present apparently insuperable difficulties, administrative and psychological.
One implication
of the
different spatial distribution
of people by race is that lots
of metropolitan areas have de facto segregated schools, while Brown v. Board
of Education and the cases that followed were quite effective in requiring schools in small towns and rural areas with racially mixed populations to be integrated, since they don't have many schools period and don't have nearly as great residential segregation into large nearly mono -
racial groups of neighborhoods the way that many large cities do.
This has driven many rigorous analyses
of charter school populations, such as the proportion
of their students belonging to
different racial groups, receiving special
education services, or still learning to speak English.
The level
of education achieved continues to be a factor in income growth for
different racial and ethnic
groups, but the amount
of that growth varies, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report.
But,
of course, one can not assume that the
education and income
of students
of different racial groups change at the same rate in all 44 states.
Well - designed accountability policy, on its own, does four things well: first, it requires participants to believe that all students can learn and succeed; second, it measures the academic progress
of all students over time; third, it highlights gaps between
different groups of students (be they
racial, geographic, socio - economic, special
education and gifted students, or English language proficiency); and fourth, it assigns consequences for not meeting goals around student progress.
«It's more
of the same: It's good that the long - term improvement trend is being shared among
different economic
groups and
racial - ethnic
groups, but we're not seeing closing in gaps,» said Kevin Carey, policy director
of the D.C. - based think tank
Education Sector.
Aligning a high - quality PreK experience with its overall
education reform goals has helped MCPS achieve significant results: almost 90 percent
of Kindergarteners enter first grade with essential early literacy skills; nearly 88 percent
of third graders read proficiently; achievement gaps between
different racial and ethnic
groups across all grade levels have declined by double digits; 90 percent
of seniors graduate from high school and about 77 percent
of them enroll in college.