Missing the Target

This obligate is written to the oecumenical public. It is begging the question, how do we close the gap? The school district or town of Ossining is struggling to get to the root of the great racial divide. However, the bigger question, is it race, is the real issue. Is it socioeconomic or an even greater issue at hand? The values stressed in this hold argon of preparation, comparability and integration.The author whole-heartedly believes that the great racial divide is what hinders many African-American and Hispanic students. The author also suggests out that the students consume benefited from the integration and provides examples in the article of said benefits. Let us examine the points a little further.The article asks the question, can the town continue to use racial targeting to close the attainment gap? Is that what is going on? According to the article, theyre doing a lot of things, further its not clear that theyre working. He (Noguera) says the results of his resea rch atomic number 18 forthcoming. Pedro Noguera is a bracing York University sociologists and nationally known expert in the achievement gap (Goldstein). He does not see how this is helping but gives the school an A for crusade. However, effort alone does not achieve results, especially in this instance. I do not see the efforts of Ossining as an academic achievement, but as a social one.It is irrelevant as to whether I agree with the values of the article, although I do. However, the values of integration do not solve the problems of the educational divide, which is the point or thesis of the article. What is stressed here is how African-Americans do better in the workforce when they are put in integrated environments and pregnancy judge are lowered for Latina and African-American teenagers, but what does that have to do with education?The sociological gap presented here is really what is being questioned. However, that is not achieving equivalence in higher education. Program s much(prenominal) as the Boy Scouts of America or summer enrichment programs can achieve integration or exposure to a less segregated social experience. The question in the article is some closing the achievement gap and that is not being addressed or answered in this article.The author values integration, equal opportunity, enrichment exposure and self-esteem. However, if the parents of the affluent are the only ones involved, then there ordain only be a social integration. Achievement comes from involvement and reinforcement at home. There are few children that can achieve anything with parents who cannot understand and assist in formulation or academic endeavors. That is discouraging. My take on it is to target parents and to teach them some what good study habits are. It does not matter if the children are being targeted if it is not reinforced at home.There are only a thin amount of children that can make achievements in dire circumstances. If the parents are presentmen t the children to work hard or that they need them to get a business line to help out with bills and other extenuating circumstances, such things can and will deter academic achievement. There are statistics that show parents that read have children that read. The emphasis on education starts at home and if there is a sociological disadvantage, then that is what needs to be addressed and resolved since, obviously, such efforts as in the Ossining school are missing the target educational equality.