Commitment Lacking to Solve Black-White Test Score Gap, Despite Evidence it Can be Overcome, New Book says
By Jim Tranquanda
- The black-white test gap can be closed with further research into black educational systems.
- Although it may take more than one generation to bridge the gap, this would “in turn help reduce racial differences in crime, health and family structure.”
- “the black-white test score gap does not appear to be an inevitable fact of nature,” but rather, both races are equally capable of equal success.
- It was also noted in this article that “IQ and achievement scores are sensitive to environmental change over time.” This is an important observation because it substantiates the claim that low test scores are the result of cultural weakness, not of intellectual weakness.
AGREE - African American students are held back by an anti-intellectual culture
DISAGREE - We need to find new and improved methods of teaching