Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Economy

Asian and white children tend be more successful than Hispanics, American Indians and blacks. It has nothing to do with being a minority then.
"At the core of the report is a newly devised index based on 12 indicators measuring a child's success from birth to adulthood. The indicators include reading and math proficiency, high school graduation data, teen birthrates, employment prospects, family income and education levels, and neighborhood poverty levels.
Using a single composite score with a scale of one to 1,000, Asian children have the highest index score at 776, followed by white children at 704.
"Scores for Latino (404), American-Indian (387) and African-American (345) children are distressingly lower, and this pattern holds true in nearly every state," said the report."
That sounds like a huge disparity. Asians aren't targets of government programs like the other minorities. That must be a huge factor harming them.

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