College begins in Kindergarten

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College begins in Kindergarten
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Moby Dick The Book I read was
about like a Big group of men trying to get to
this white whale and they way to finding the
white whale if they pick up a regular whale that
was cool but they was looking for the white whale
there was two roomates and one was white and one
was Black not Black But light skin this is a good
Book to read Because this is just a interesting
Book to read. I seen the movie But I never read
the Book myself. The end
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College Exit
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Source 2002 NCAA Division I Graduation Rates
Report http//www.ncaa.org/
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• Meyerhoff Scholars
• 1st in undergraduate biochemistry degrees awarded
  to African Americans
• produces nearly 1/3 of all undergraduate
  biochemistry degrees awarded to African Americans

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High School Exit
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African American and Latino 17 Year Olds Read at
the Same Levels as White 13 Year Olds
Source Source NAEP 1999 Long Term Trends
Summary Tables (online)
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• The Most Vulnerable Group a Litmus Test for
  Quality Education

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Too Few 17 Year-Olds Demonstrate Strong Reading
Skills
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Source USDOE, NCES, National Assessment of
Educational Progress (NAEP) Summary Data Tables
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Source USDOE, NCES, National Assessment of
Educational Progress (NAEP) Summary Data Tables
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Why?
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What We Hear Adults Say

• Theyre poor
• Their parents dont care
• They come to schools without breakfast
• Not enough books
• Not enough parents . . .

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What Students Say We CAN Learn, But...

• some teachers dont know
• their subjects
• counselors underestimate our
• potential
• principals dismiss concerns
• expectations are low

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SourceMetropolitan Life, Survey of the American
Teacher 2000 Are We Preparing Students for the
21st Century?, September 2000.
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What We SayFour Reasons All Students Dont
Achieve High Standards

• Some students get better teachers than others
• Limited time
• Some students get more challenging curriculum
  than others
• Some students are held to higher standards than
  others

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Teacher Quality
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1998 by The Education Trust, Inc.
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1998 by The Education Trust, Inc.
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Students in Low Track Classes Are More Often
Taught by Underqualified Teachers
Secondary schools
Source Ingersoll, The Problem of Underqualified
Teachers in American Secondary Schools
Educational Researcher, Vol. 28, No 2 (March
1999) pp. 26-37
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Classes in high-poverty and high-minority schools
are more likely to be taught by teachers out of
their field of expertise
percent of secondary classes taught by a teacher
without at least a minor in the subject
Source The Education Trust, All Talk, No Action,
August 2002. Calculations for the Ed Trust by
Richard M. Ingersoll, University of Pennsylvania.
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Curriculum
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Students can do no better than the assignments
theyre given
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14 SC High Schools Calibrated
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Percentage of High Scoring Students Placed in
Algebra in One Southern California School District
Source The Achievement Council, Inc. Los
Angeles, CA. Unpublished. 1991
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Some students are held to a higher standard than
others
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A Work in Poor Schools Would Earn Cs in
Affluent Schools
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Abraham Lincoln Middle School Alachua, Florida

• 31 White
• 59 African American
• 57 Low Income
• An A school under the Florida accountability
  model

Source Florida Department of Education,
http//web.fldoe.org.
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Achievement Gaps at Lincoln 2002-03 Math
AYP Target 38
Source Florida Department of Education,
http//web.fldoe.org
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Relentless Focus
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Pittsburgh High Implementation Schools Wipe Out
Black/White Gap in Math Skills
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Confront Tracking
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Minority AP Enrollment in One Jefferson County
High School
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Lincoln Elementary SchoolMount Vernon, NY

• ?69 African American and Latino
• ?49 low-income
• Has outperformed nearly ¾ of NY elem. schools in
  both math and English for three years in a row.
• In 2002, outscored 98 of NY elem. schools in
  math and 99 in English.

Source Ed Trust. Dispelling the Myth Online and
New York State Department of Education. Overview
of School Performance In English Language Arts,
Mathematics, and Science and Analysis of Student
Subgroup Performance for Lincoln School. April
10, 2003
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There is a 19 point gap between Poor African
American 4th graders in the District of Columbia
and Boston (roughly equivalent to 2 years worth
of learning)
SOURCE U.S. Department of Education, Institute
of Education Sciences, National Center for
Education Statistics, National Assessment of
Educational Progress (NAEP), 2003 Trial Urban
District Reading Assessment.
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of Black Students at Basic Level or Above in
Delaware is Equal to or Greater than the of
White Students at Basic Level or Above in 7 States
NAEP 8th Grade Writing 2002
Source NCES, National Assessment of Educational
Progress
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States with Biggest Gains for African American
4th Graders(NAEP 2003 Reading)
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State Progress in Moving African American 4th
Graders From Below Basic to at Least Basic
Reading 1998-2003
Source USDOE, NCES, National Assessment of
Educational Progress (NAEP)
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Top Gap Closers for African American 4th
Graders, Reading 1998-2003
Source USDOE, NCES, National Assessment of
Educational Progress (NAEP)
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Centennial Place Elementary SchoolAtlanta,
Georgia

• 93 African American
• 69 Low Income
• In 2002, performed as well or better than 88 of
  Georgia schools in 4th grade math
• In 2002, performed as well or better than 93 of
  Georgia schools in 4th grade reading
• Made AYP for 2003-04

Source Georgia Department of Education,
http//www.doe.k12.ga.us Dispelling
the Myth Online, http//www.edtrust.org
School Information Partnership,
http//www.schoolresults.org
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VirginiaRaising Achievement, Closing GapsGrade
3 Math
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Source Virginia Department of Education,
http//pen.k12.va.us
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North CarolinaRaising Achievement, Closing Gaps
Grade 4 Reading
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Source North Carolina Department of Public
Instruction, http//www.ncpublicschools.org
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S. E. Hintons The Outsiders is a novel
about two gangs, the Socs and the Greasers.
The Socs is a gang that drives nice cars, and
they live in nice homes. Their parents are
there when they need them. On the other hand,
the Greasers is not a bad group. Members of the
Greasers just do not have parents or are like
Johnny whose parents dont care about him or
like him. Johnny feels like dying. Ponyboy, a
Greaser, just lives in a house all alone with
his three brothers or should I say men?
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These two gangs are alike in many ways.
The only thing that is different is parents. The
Greasers parents died or in Johnnys case the
parents dont care about them, but they really
are the same. Ponyboy says that Cherry, a Socs,
looked him straight in the eye and said, Things
are rough all over. Socs are not better then
the Greasers according to Cherry. The Socs just
have parents, and the Greasers dont, and all
kids want their family together, to take care of
them.
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