“Asian students have generally performed better than white students on state math tests in the city (New York), and about the same on English tests. Those gaps have remained fairly consistent over the years. “(New York Times, N.Y Monday, August16, 2010). The city Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Chancellor Joel I. Klein have been proved wrong in their claims to the contrary all these years since 2002 when the present Mayor came to office.
New York still has to solve the problem of uplifting the standards of Black and Hispanic students at the school level This is the situation when a laudable scheme called “No Child Left Behind” which mandated annual testing for all students in grades three through eight had been launched in right earnest and it had even won the praise of President George W. Bush as well as a prestigious education prize from the Broad Foundation in 2007.
It seems the problem of under-development remains more or less the same in any part of the globe, a country or a society as the case may be – whether developed fully or partially. What is the difference between the given scenario in Central India, Sub-Saharan Africa and Pan America and a similar one in the Manhattan County of New York City, the most developed piece of land on earth? Black and Hispanic populations live there side by side in considerable numbers with the whites for more than two-three centuries. The New York City Administration and the Federal Government of USA will have to work hard for number of years to achieve the set goal of parity in educational standards between different segments of populations like in the case of underdeveloped countries (for example - the tribal belts of Central India) in the third world.
New York still has to solve the problem of uplifting the standards of Black and Hispanic students at the school level This is the situation when a laudable scheme called “No Child Left Behind” which mandated annual testing for all students in grades three through eight had been launched in right earnest and it had even won the praise of President George W. Bush as well as a prestigious education prize from the Broad Foundation in 2007.
It seems the problem of under-development remains more or less the same in any part of the globe, a country or a society as the case may be – whether developed fully or partially. What is the difference between the given scenario in Central India, Sub-Saharan Africa and Pan America and a similar one in the Manhattan County of New York City, the most developed piece of land on earth? Black and Hispanic populations live there side by side in considerable numbers with the whites for more than two-three centuries. The New York City Administration and the Federal Government of USA will have to work hard for number of years to achieve the set goal of parity in educational standards between different segments of populations like in the case of underdeveloped countries (for example - the tribal belts of Central India) in the third world.
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