Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 2002 — Page 9
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6,2002
THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER
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What this country needs is an Education Revolution
What is the relationship between declining SAT scores, minorities, and poverty? Minorities, who live in poverty, have SAT scores that continue to decline. In the past five years, SAT scores of all students, who were eligible for free or reduced lunch, are on average 138 points behind their wealthier classmates. • While Indiana schools showed a one point total gain on its recent scores, African-American students still lag behind on the nationwide college entrance exam. African-American students are entering 1st grade unprepared, middle school ... unprepared and they are entering high school... unprepared. Over half of our young high school students today have never enrolled in at least one honors class. Also, close to 60 percent of AfricanAmerican students who stick around for their senior year, have a grade-point average of 2.0 or less by the end of their Uth grade year. “The evidence of inadequate academic preparation among the African-Ameri-can students in the class of 2002 who took the SAT is unmistakable,” says Superintendent Jerry D. Weast of the Montgomery County, in Washington, D.C. “With lack of preparation upon entering each required level of education, from primary to secondary, our young African-American students will also be ill prepared for life after high school.” “There are not enough African-American youngsters being guided and supported and taking higher-level classes earlier,” said Ruby Rubens, chairwoman of the education committee for the Montgomery County NAACP. “Many youngsters are not challenged to the extent that they should be taking advanced placement classes and they’re not. The expectations have to improve in terms of the adults in their lives, parents and teachers, and the community.” Indiana’s combined score for the math and verbal sections came in one point higher than last year’s results. This year’s score of 1,001 is still 19 points behind the national average of 1,020. The largest school group in the state, the Indianapolis Public School district, recorded an increase of 34 points. The average SAT score for the 251 seniors who took the test was 940. A perfect score on the entrance exam is 1,600. The inequality of the test scores is not the only problem facing these students who are not performing well on the SATs. The Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning recently released a study that found only 7 percent of teachers in California schools with the highest family incomes lacked the training and experience for full teacher accreditation, while 22 percent of teachers in schools with the lowest family incomes were in that same category. The study concluded that this is a national trend. The lower the incomes of students’ parents, the less
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classroom teaching experience their public school teachers are likely to have. The gap between the rich and the poor, the have and havenots, and the well educated vs. the least educated is continuing to become wider. We all know what happens to a society when the large majority of people are “poor uneducated have-nots.’' Resentment and hostilities began to manifest themselves into aggressive actions. And those actions are often times directed towards individuals who have benefited off the backs of the uneducated ones. There has been an American Revolution, Industrial Revolution, and even a Cultural Revolution. Now it is time for an Education Revolution. Phase one of the revolution should be to educate the least of those students with the same vigor and dedication that the best of those are receiving. Phase two should be to institute mandatory sensitivity training and cultural awareness classes for all certified and non-certified educators who are working with our young people in public schools. And phase three should be to change the national movement of “No Child Left
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