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Middle class black children and the achievment gap

George Cook · Saturday, March 20th 2010 at 7:29AM · 120 views
"The fact that middle-class black children lag behind their white and Asian peers" remains a mystery to many researchers, says Travis Gosa, Cornell assistant professor of Africana studies
People are aware of the achievement gap in the "black underclass," said Gosa, and a lot of research focuses on closing this gap, he said.

However, "The school performance of middle-class black children is closer to that of poor white children," he said. The gap is largest among the college-educated, he added.

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tony thomas Friday, March 26th 2010 at 5:49PM

children are like sponges, start talking too them with knowledgable information like red apples are rond and delicious, colors,shapes, nutrition,vocbulary all learned in one sentence. I say this humbly because I was a 1." average student because I was not being feed the goog information. Conprehendo. Ha ha.

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