By Matthew Ladner, Ph.D.
I've received quite a bit of reader mail from this previous article showing that Florida's Hispanic students outscore Arizona's statewide average on fourth grade reading exams. Some writers wanted to know if this could be attributed to the fact that
Other inquiries involved questions about student poverty. Statewide averages for low-income students for
Using the data analysis features on the NAEP website, you can get fourth grade reading scores broken down by both race and income. It is not only the case that
I appeared on a conference panel recently, and a fellow panelist noted the difference between a problem and a condition. A problem, she said, was something you tried to fix. A condition was something you had given up on and just grown to accept.
Low academic achievement in
I don't know what else they've been doing but I intend to find out. This is an enormously hopeful finding. To paraphrase that famous line from When Harry Met Sally: I'll have what
Dr. Matthew Ladner is the vice president of research at the Goldwater Institute.
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