Chart copied from WaPo

artappraiser — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 22:16:41 +0000

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Chart copied from WaPo article (because it won't paste as viewed):

Racial achievement gaps in Shaker Heights schools; Share of black and white public school students, 2018-2019

Kindergartners identified as on track

Black 30%

White 84%

Fourth-graders scoring average or higher in English/language arts

Black 80%

White 99%

Eighth-graders enrolled in algebra I, geometry or high school physical science

Black 30%

White 85%

Ninth-graders scoring proficient or higher on English end-of-course assessments

Black 50%

White 95%

11th-graders enrolled in at least one AP or IB course

Black 12%

White 68%

High school students graduating within four years

Black 93%

White 98%

Source: Shaker Heights City Schools

following quote:

“Any time you break our data out by race, we look like two different schools,” said Chris Rateno, director of student data systems for the district, which is home to about 31,000 people and eight schools.

this is interesting on topic,

artappraiser — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 21:33:54 +0000

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this is interesting on topic, especially as it predates the effect on attitudes of having the highly-educated Obamas in the White House

Editor's Review of John U. Ogbu's Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003. 320 pp. $32.50.)

By DORINDA J. CARTER @ Harvard Educational Review, Winter 2004 issue

excerpt just to give an idea:

[....] For several decades, the late educational scholar John U. Ogbu theorized about and studied the academic performance of immigrant and non-immigrant (also referred to as voluntary and involuntary, respectively) minority students. Although often contested in the field of education for overgeneralizations regarding the academic performance of these students, Ogbu’s work has been seminal in understanding the attitudes and behaviors of Black students in public schools. His final book, Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement, captures the complexities of examining the Black-White achievement gap in an ethnographic study of the well-known, upper-middle-class suburban Shaker Heights community outside of Cleveland, Ohio. For over eight months, Ogbu and his research team conducted group and individual discussions and interviews with students, school personnel, and community members, and conducted participant observations in four elementary schools, one middle school, and the community’s high school.

Using a cultural-ecological theory, Ogbu examines several interlocking factors that might affect middle-class Black students’ school performance and their academic engagement. According to Ogbu, the cultural-ecological theory of minority schooling considers two sets of factors that [.....]

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Chart copied from WaPo

this is interesting on topic,