{"id":1969,"date":"2014-10-27T13:32:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T19:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2014-10-27T13:32:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T19:32:44","slug":"hope-kid-isnt-hispanic-economically-disadvantaged-park-city-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/27\/hope-kid-isnt-hispanic-economically-disadvantaged-park-city-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope Your Kid isn&#8217;t Hispanic or Economically Disadvantaged in a Park City School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve pointed out that the new Sage standardized\u00a0school test by the state of Utah is like any other standardized test. At 35, your kid won&#8217;t even remember they\u00a0they took it and it&#8217;s likely the result won&#8217;t alter their lives.<\/p>\n<p>However we are struck by the disparity in proficiency\u00a0between CAUCASIAN and both HISPANIC and ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED students. While we are sure the test has flaws, a 40% difference\u00a0between Caucasian\u00a0students and Hispanic students is crazy. 60+% of Caucasian students are proficient while 19% or less of Hispanic kids are\u00a0proficient.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Perhaps\u00a0instead of dual immersion, our schools should worry about just immersing Hispanic and low income students in education at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sage-by-demo.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1970\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sage-by-demo.jpg\" alt=\"sage-by-demo\" width=\"592\" height=\"643\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve pointed out that the new Sage standardized\u00a0school test by the state of Utah is like any other standardized test. At 35, your kid&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}