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  An Achievement Gap Report Unreported by the Mainstream Media

  The single measurable attribute of all the varied data that is most often given an oh-so cursory oe'r glancing, if that, is the corollary between parent participation and student performance. Even here in this blog, short shrift is given to the obvious signal pointing to the need for parents to be involved in their children's growth and education in preference to an indictment that the news media is not paying attention to the problem, ( as if ).

  
  

  ETS participated in a pilot program in concert with a group from the Dept of Education just a few short years ago, ( a part of the results became a concomitant part of A Perfect Storm ). The study group went into Trenton H.S. to learn what factors were contributing to minority under achievement in low income districts. It was an effort to discover and map indicators that were most outstanding other than wealth disparity. Almost immediately, a form of statistical apartheid was effected as minority super-group was further partitioned and the entire Asian student population was tossed out - they screwed up the data, ( and the assumptions - can't have one group constantly over achieving within like socio-economic circumstances when you've already decided on the story you want to tell ).

  
  

  So, why, when "minority" education and under-achievement are discussed, has the 'conversation' morphed to exclude an entire minority audience that would - in honest examination - provide massive remedial insight into how best to focus strategies to aid lagging student groups?

  
  

  The reason, as always in American Post 60's Education doctrine, is that discovering why Asian students, even in bitterly poor and unsafe neighborhoods, continue to outperform almost all other student ethnic and economic groups - including wealthy 'white' districts - will throw all the decades is narcissistic and invidiously racist educational psychobabble into the light of truth in which it dare not show itself.

  
  

  The brave new world of socially engineered childhood education is in large part a vicious sham and the plaything of baby boomers irredeemably determined to justify their own "lifestyles" by skewing all data and evidence to meet a specific end: get parenting out of education.

  
  

  Why do Asian students consistently perform well when in the midst of external factors that appear to thwart the efforts of all other ethnic groups? Because education in most Asian homes is the Holy Grail of all being. Except for most Jewish populaces - where Education is considered a near sacrament - Asian homes and in particular, Asian parents are tireless in their efforts to ensure that their children learn, learn well, learn completely, and achieve. So much is this true that the stereotype is almost ever debated and is not even too much considered to "racist".

  
  

  It is typical that in low income districts where mixed ethnic population occur, Asian students are compelled by their parents to meet clear and lithic standards. There may be no computers in the classrooms, but there are in the homes. There may be no $150 sneakers, but there are $150 graphing calculators.

  
  

  For many many, years now, the U.S. has spent literally billions of dollars on every imaginable attempt, however implausible, ( remember Ebonics? ), to promote and entice, cajole and nurture, reward, beg, plead with minority groups to pursue academic excellence. There are countless examples of individuals who've achieved greatness in the face of seemingly impenetrable walls of adversity and hardship - and two common threads are in many of in not literally all those success stories: education and family.

  
  

  Within this last decade our nation has seen the first black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the first black Secretary of State, the first black female National Security Advisor, the first black female Secretary of State, and now the first black President. All of whom came from humble beginning and all of whom excelled in spite of economic and social barriers.

  
  

  And in each case, the man or woman is bright, clear headed, well spoken and literate in English, and points to family as the support for their path to higher endeavors. Each has made it clear that education was the key to unlocked the doors of their dreams.

  
  

  If the education cabal in the United States were to ever get truly honest about there avowed goal of making sure no child was left behind, the first place, the very first place, the place most importantly of all they would visit would be the homes and the parents.

  
  

  The point of Aldous Huxley's, "A Brave New World" was the preposterous failure of a world eviscerated of human family and contact. Parenting via federal program is, has been, and will continue to be, just a large a failure. The results of which are walking the streets in gangs, languishing in prisons, or aimless wandering there own lives without even knowing why they are so disaffected and uninterested in learning anything. Children know when they are cared for. They also almost always know when they are being lied to. They just as readily know when mom or dad are reading to them. They love it.