PA responds to 'achievement gap'
January 25, 2012
The Stanford Daily
By:
Judith Pelpola
Black and Latino students in Palo Alto are far less likely to complete college preparatory curriculum, says Boaler.
Palo Alto parents called for a reduction last week of the achievement gap between minority and non-minority students in the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD). Frustrated guardians voiced their complaints to the PAUSD Board of Education at a meeting on Tues., Jan. 17.
One of those parents was Michele Dauber, who is also a Stanford law professor and head of the organization We Can Do Better Palo Alto.
Dauber cited the teaching and counseling in Palo Alto as a prime factor of the trend, claiming counselors and teachers fail to encourage minority students to take courses beyond current requirements.
“I think they’re basically steered off the college track,” said Dauber in an interview with The Daily.
