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- Title: Meeting Their Fullest Potential: The Beliefs and Teaching of a Culturally Relevant Science Teacher (Report)
- Author : Creative Education
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 214 KB
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Introduction Elementary and middle school children of color continue to score poorly on science standardized tests. According to the National Assessment for Educational Progress [NAEP] (2009) and the National Center for Education Statistics (2003, 2007, 2010), African American and Hispanic/Latino students are significantly behind their White counterparts in terms of grade level competence in reading, math, history, geography, and science. More specifically, science standardized test data show a history of significant achievement gaps among students of color and English language learners (Lee & Fradd, 1998; Mullis, Dossey, Campbell, Gentile, O'Sullivan, & Latham, 1994; National Center for Educational Statistics, 2002; National Science Foundation, 1994; Parsons, 2008). In fact, their poor achievement becomes more and more visible as they move further in school (Parsons, 2008). The National Assessment for Educational Progress (2009) reports 42% of African American fourth graders, 59% African American eighth graders, and 67% African American twelfth graders performed below basic on their science proficiency exams.