Thursday, August 29, 2002
And What Happened After 1992?
"Local Latino students are scoring lower on the SAT exam than they were a decade ago and trail further behind non-Hispanic whites than in 1992," reports the San Diego Union Tribune ("Latinos score lower on SAT than decade ago," August 28th). The report suggests the gap is caused by "non-white students [being] denied learning opportunities that white students have" and admits "[t]he growing SAT gap may be partially attributable to an increasing linguistic gap."
In 1993, the federal government changed hands and the Clinton Administration began an aggressive effort to enforce bilingual education mandates both real and imagined. For the next eight years, a school district that failed to teach Hispanic kids Spanish would be in trouble with Washington, while a school district that failed to teach Hispanic kids English had no worries at all. No wonder the gap increased.
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