Community | December 28, 2011 | 3 comments

Black Seattleites score poorly compared to Immigrant Imports

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congoboy
SEATTLE -- A new look at test scores by Seattle Public Schools shows American-born black students lag behind black immigrants in academic achievement.

African-American students, whose primary language is English, perform significantly worse in math and reading than black students who speak another language at home, The Seattle Times reported in Monday's newspaper.

The results were presented at a community meeting at Rainier Beach High School. Michael Tolley, an executive director overseeing Southeast Seattle schools, said at the meeting that the data exposed a new achievement gap that is "extremely, extremely alarming."

The school district for years has analyzed test scores by race, but now is doing a more nuanced breakdown.

District officials have pledged to find out what might be causing this disturbing trend.

But some community members said the administration doesn't appear to be taking the results seriously enough.

"I saw that and I was shocked," Rainier Beach PTSA President Carlina Brown said about the presentation. "I was shocked, and we're not getting a sense of urgency from the district. We need a timeline. Not another committee. We need to know what they're doing and when."

District officials said they need to study the new data further before speculating about the reasons for it or making policy changes in response.
Mark Teoh, the district's data manager, said he has wanted to break down student-achievement data this way for years. http://www.king5.com/news/cities/seattle/Alarming-new-test-score-gap-discovered-...
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3 comments // Black Seattleites score poorly compared to Immigrant Imports

  • congoboy
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      congoboy  

    • no need to waste taxpayer money on another worthless study. some good common sense without the extra baggage of political correctness will provide the right answer free of charge

    • 5 months ago
  • dcrog
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    • congoboy:

      Well Congoboy, you are right again. If the kids were just forced to learn, and to respect themselves and others, it does not matter how much skin tone they have or don't have they all would reach their potential, but the PC world, rather than offer a hand-up, prefers to stick to the tried and failed hand-out. That is after all, how they expanded and created the permanent underclass/indigent/OWS zombies who will vote in large numbers for the Communists/"democrats".

      It's once again disturbing that none of the metro-left have weighed in on this post, as feather weight as they are! I did notice that some sack lacking pervert voted your comment down, but did not have the personal fortitude to post a comment. I corrected their error by pushing you back to 0!

      Have a great New Year bro, and to everyone else who may read this post. May it be better than the last 3 years! :)

    • 5 months ago
  • congoboy
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      congoboy  
    • dcrog:

      thanks for the vote up, my self esteem was dependent on it! although i am never surprised it never ceases to amaze me that the left can continually bash the right but totally ignore posts when it proves their self projections and myths wrong. happy new year to you too my friend.

    • 5 months ago
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