My Thoughts on "Talking Equality"

This article explains the educational differences in accomplishments in school from certain ethnicities. It explains how some children of a certain race are doing better grade-wise than other races. This difference is called the "achievement gap". According to this article, the Latino and Black students are below the Asian and White students. The percentages of Asian and White students are more than doubled when it comes to advanced placement classes and High school population. Many people gave comments in this article and they sounded as if this was a serious problem that they want to change.

There are people in groups that are working on closing the achievement gap. Their main focus is changing the problem at the root, which they define as the parents, students, and communities. They are also working on changing some of the main problems that need solutions. Those problems include not having textbooks to take home, some schools not having a good distribution of well experienced teachers.

This article includes many statistics that vary. In every statistic the White and Asian were doing better. Even when the numbers of Blacks and Latinos were higher, in that case it would be the suspension rate per hundred students. This problem could be linked to the fact that not many people have interest in school and the younger children aren't being properly prevented from doing these things.

There were many attempts in trying to fix these problems but almost all of them fell short and were not as effective as they hoped. The groups are changing their approach to changing the achievement gap because their other approaches have been tried very long but didn't work. They hope that changing how they plan fix it will fix it.