Return-Path: <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h9GFkiV17294; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:46:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:46:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <525B11D7.243F9FAC.0A349A3F@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AWilder106@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:1254] Re: Article on Closing the Achievement gap X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: O Content-Length: 931 Lines: 5 Hi, I have taught in both public and private (independent) schools, been a special ed teacher and an administrator, read a lot on this subject(Ogbu, Thernstrom, Moynihan, etc.), poured over test scores, and I think the achievement gap is real. Why it is there will govern what to do about it. Go to a recent editorial by William Raspberry, Washington Post, sent to the Boston Globe, on this topic. I have a professor friend, also a former school teacher,administrator and principal, who is doing work on this topic. Both of us think home visits are part of the answer--teacher conferences held at students' homes if the parents want this. I've done it. This is only a tiny part of the answer but it's a good one, I believe. There are recent (last year) articles which talk about exemplary schools (schools which succeed in difficult circumstances) where this communal aspect of schooling is front and center. Andrea
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