Common Core standards may barely be helping Hispanic students?

If some early reports on the controversial Common Core Standards are an indication, Hispanic students in the U.S. are falling behind on the very curriculum that was intended to help them achieve higher proficiency in school.


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Even though implementation of Common Core Standards are still being phased in throughout many school systems in the country, a new report regarding the state of New York, which recently completed its fourth year of a 12-year Common Core phase-in shows 23 percent of Latinos are proficient in math, while only 19 percent are proficient in English.

Overall, New York students are 36 percent proficient in math and 31 percent proficient in English.
Kentucky is the other state that is utilizing the Common Core Standards, but results from last year’s school year aren’t yet available. Expectations are the achievement gap between Latinos and whites will remain high.


National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Deputy VP of Education and Workforce Development Peggy McLeod told VOXXI it’s way too early for low marks to color the anticipated long-term effect of the Common Core Standards.
http://voxxi.com/2014/09/14/latino-students-failing-common-core/