tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post2015144926439384312..comments2024-03-28T23:38:22.511-07:00Comments on Seattle Schools Community Forum: Interesting Article from the NYTMelissa Westbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17179994245880629080noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-23606385265193556562013-04-30T04:36:10.165-07:002013-04-30T04:36:10.165-07:00To make this trend concrete, consider two children...<i>To make this trend concrete, consider two children, one from a family with income of $165,000 and one from a family with income of $15,000. These incomes are at the 90th and 10th percentiles of the income distribution nationally, meaning that 10 percent of children today grow up in families with incomes below $15,000 and 10 percent grow up in families with incomes above $165,000.<br /><br />In the 1980s, on an 800-point SAT-type test scale, the average difference in test scores between two such children would have been about 90 points; today it is 125 points. <b>This is almost twice as large as the 70-point test score gap between white and black children. Family income is now a better predictor of children’s success in school than race</b>.</i><br /><br />Ive been saying this for two decades.<br />We could have saved millions of dollars by assigning kids to schools by socioeconomic indicators, instead of suing to use race instead.<br />IMO we would have had more to show for it as well.Jet City momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14804841958585043967noreply@blogger.com