by Thomas Sowell
Charter schools are an important tool in breaking the cycle of poverty
For decades, there has been widespread anxiety over
how, when or whether the educational test score gap between white and
non-white youngsters could be closed. But that gap has already been
closed by the Success Academy charter school network in New York City.
New York’s charter school students are predominantly black and Hispanic, and live in low-income neighborhoods. In 2019, most students in the city’s public schools failed to pass the statewide tests in mathematics and English. But most of the city’s charter school students passed in both subjects.
Such charter school results undermine theories of genetic determinism, claims of cultural bias in the tests and assertions that racial “integration” is necessary for blacks to reach educational parity with whites.
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Thomas Sowell
Source: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/black-success-charter-schools-enemies-thomas-sowell
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