MAJOR FACTORS FOR CONTINUED MINORITY FAILURE ON COMMON CORE TEST IGNORED- WHY IS THAT? - Perdaily.com

MAJOR FACTORS FOR CONTINUED MINORITY FAILURE ON COMMON CORE TEST IGNORED- WHY IS THAT? - Perdaily.com:

MAJOR FACTORS FOR CONTINUED MINORITY FAILURE ON COMMON CORE TEST IGNORED- WHY IS THAT?

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In analyzing the recent abysmal showing and further decline of Black and Latino students on recent state tests designed to measure their mastery of Common Core standards, major factors seem to have been purposefully ignored in looking at these scores in order to continue a failed public education policy that is clearly responsible. Why is that? Could it have anything to do with the corporate agenda that seeks to justify the further privatization of the now close to $2 trillion a year public education "business" with privately owned or controlled charter schools designed to tap into these funds by corporations?

The greatest factor in explaining this continued poor performance of Black and Latino students on these tests is not even addressed as a factor in explaining why these students continue to fail in school and on these tests. In the continued segregation of our public schools 61 years after Brown vs. Board of Education said, "Separate but equal...is inherently unequal" and against the law, not only has segregation gotten worse, it has gotten so bad that older African Americans now often remark that the segregated all Black schools they went to were better than a de facto segregated Dorsey, Crenshaw, or Audubon LAUSD school, where failure is almost ensured and success is the miraculous exception rather than the grade-level mastery, which should be the rule.

When somebody like Chris Minnich, executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers says, "We are asking more out of our kids and I think that's a good thing" as reported by Howard Blum in the Los Angeles Times, both Blum and Minnich are clearly lying and they know it.

In school districts like LAUSD, that remain close to 90% Latino and Black, the vast majority of students, parents, teachers, and most importantly administrators have noMAJOR FACTORS FOR CONTINUED MINORITY FAILURE ON COMMON CORE TEST IGNORED- WHY IS THAT? - Perdaily.com: