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The Florida State Board of Education passed a plan that sets goals for students in math and reading based upon their race. On Tuesday, the board passed a revised strategic plan that says that by 2018, it wants 90 percent of Asian students, 88 percent of white students, 81 percent of Hispanics and 74 percent of black students to be reading at or above grade level. For math, the goals are 92 percent of Asian kids to be proficient, whites at 86 percent, Hispanics at 80 percent and blacks at 74 percent. It also measures by other groupings, such as poverty and disabilities, reported the Palm Beach Post.

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the Florida Department of Education said the goals recognize that not every group is starting from the same point and are meant to be ambitious but realistic. As an example, the percentage of white students scoring at or above grade level (as measured by whether they scored a 3 or higher on the reading FCAT) was 69 percent in 2011-2012, according to the state. For black students, it was 38 percent, and for Hispanics, it was 53 percent. In addition, State Board of Education Chairwoman Kathleen Shanahan said that setting goals for different subgroups was needed to comply with terms of a waiver that Florida and 32 other states have from some provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. These waivers were used to make the states independent from some federal regulations.

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On Tuesday, the board passed a revised strategic plan that says that by 2018, it wants 90 percent of Asian students, 88 percent of white students, 81 percent of Hispanics and 74 percent of black students to be reading at or above grade level. For math, the goals are 92 percent of Asian kids to be proficient, whites at 86 percent, Hispanics at 80 percent and blacks at 74 percent. It also measures by other groupings, such as poverty and disabilities, reported the Palm Beach Post.

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Wow. I need to process this.

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they aren't requiring equal outcomes and dumbing down the Asians to perfom like blacks.

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we are officially educating/tracking according to race now.

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There was a movie based upon the success of one math teacher in the LA school district to get a group of what would be considered the social misfits of the community to succeed in calculus in high school twenty odd years ago. The movie should be inspiration to those people that yearn to improve the lives of thier students.

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I can't remember the author of the book I read twenty plus years ago but it was a blueprint for the failure of education in America and the fact that it would lead to a fracturing of society as a whole as it progressed, as the ideas that certian bits of knowledge were the very things that gave America a sense of interconnectivity across the land would no longer be considered of importance across the land.

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What does that mean? Racial outcomes, distributions, incentives, rewards, phony statistics have been part of education for decades.

What actually bothers you in this report?

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Equal access to educational resources yet separate educational standards and expectations.

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Seems very familiar to me.

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Highlighting differences in our society seems like a great recipe to promote division.

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They are setting goals based upon cognitive ability.

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