I've had to accept that her pattern of eating is different than the rest of the family's — it always has been — so it's no surprise that she's not gobbling her lunch
like majority of her classmates.
All three juniors at Summit High School in Bend opted out of Smarter Balanced this spring — as did the
vast majority of their classmates: 332 chose not to take the test, roughly 92 percent of the junior class, up from one student last year.
Most significantly, Coleman asserted that disadvantaged black students would do better academically if they attended schools in which
the majority of their classmates were white.
Simply put, the challenges that low - income students face are significantly greater when
the majority of their classmates are also low income.
And what can we do to identify why some students are learning at a slower rate than
the majority of their classmates?