Race and the Achievement Gap

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Race and the Achievement Gap

• By Nicole and Jackie

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Scientific Racism

• History
• Stereotype Vulnerability
• Test Scores

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History

• White Supremacy
• Harvard Educational Review
• Blacks and Browns were Genetically Inferior
• Genetic superiority was discredited by
  geneticists and biologists.

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Stereotype Vulnerability

• Intimidation
• Created by society
• Hidden curriculum
• Acknowledgement
• Motivation
• Not academically prepared
• Focused on reality

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. Were suppose to be dumb so we might as well
be dumb..what good is a quadratic equation
gonna do me if Im picking up garbage cans?
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Test Scores

• Average difference in test scores is 10 lower.
• In California CBEST is African American Test
  takers 3.5 times more likely to fail.
• Peter Sacks estimates that for every additional
  10,000 in family income a person on average
  gains 30 points on SAT.

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The Test Themselves

• Racially biased
• Culturally Biased
• Content of the tests
• Language of the tests

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Institutionalized Racism

• Present in sectors of
• social
• Economic
• Cultural
• Political life

• Business
• Housing
• Employment
• Law enforcement
• Courts
• Health-care
• Schools

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Ending the Gap

• Change will come about only to response to the
  pressure by coalitions and alliances that cut
  across
• Political
• social
• Class
• Racial
• Ideological lines

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We must not allow governments, panels of
corporate executives, and remote, experts to
impose a singular view of curriculum and
learning.
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THE END !!!!!!!!!!!!!!Jackie and Nicole