Still not recognizing minority-majority era is here and it requires quality education for the deprived (even in richest city in the country)…. Meanwhile law suits have to be filed to force states to equalize funding (latest in Texas and Colorado) and still they drag their feet as (New Jersey reveals).
How do these test scores lead to disparate results that are so unbelievably extreme? More affluent families can stick their kids into “test prep” courses. Remember the test prep courses to get your kids prepared for the SATs and GMATs? Now they offer test prep all the way down to the level of training four-year-old kids to take the “gifted and talented test”—at a cost of $1,350 or so, according to CSS staff. Preparation courses for specialized high school admissions tests can cost $1,500 or more. Jones writes, “these test preps aren’t shown to make students any smarter; they just help them to score higher on the tests.”
The results are all too telling. Take New York City’s “gifted and talented” program of elite kindergartens — 29 percent of the pupils are
