Minority students making big advances

Hispanics and blacks in South Florida high schools had some of the best scores in the nation on advanced placement tests in subjects from art to calculus.

Ten South Florida high schools led the nation in the number of minority students who passed advanced placement exams, the challenging tests that are a widely accepted gauge of academic achievement, The Herald has learned.

Eight senior highs in Miami-Dade County and two in Broward County boasted the strongest minority-student performance in at least one subject last year, besting nearly 15,000 other schools.

''It's an incredible success story,'' said Sonia Diaz, Miami-Dade's newly appointed deputy superintendent for curriculum and instruction, who wants to expand the AP program in the district. 'We have to see how it is they taught the courses, what their particular approach was that supported these students' success.''

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10641202.htm?1c

The administration will undertake some obscene program to roll back the advances...

How dare those brownies do well in school..

Does this quote bother you the way it does me?

«'It's an incredible success story,'' said Sonia Diaz, Miami-Dade's newly appointed deputy superintendent for curriculum and instruction, who wants to expand the AP program in the district. 'We have to see how it is they taught the courses, what their particular approach was that supported these students' success.''»

The Superintendent doesn't know how they did it?

Sheesh!

And yes, these schools must be ignoring or bypassing NCLB somehow. Wait till it catches up with them...

By the way,I do approve of less tracking based on racist assumptions. That's half the battle right there.

Sue

Well, I'm not surprised that the first major breakthrough in scores is coming from a predominately latino community. Living in a community that supports your heritage is always a plus. One less distraction.

Tracking based on race will continue until anglos finally get the point that factors that have been holding the scores down for minorities are not due to genetics.

and the Dominicans, and the Panamanians, and the Costa Ricans, and the Colombians, and the Chileans...

Did I make my point? Raza unida.

fair chance and same resources. However, after the Texas cheating scandal involving how students were taught the test, I am suspicious of anything coming out of FL or TX.