Fall Assessment 2022

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Fall has arrived, and with it, the need to assess students in order to gauge their performance at grade level.  The effects of COVID on education, and the loss of learning that occurred, have become more noticeable as the complete return to in classroom instruction takes place this school year.

California looks to the upcoming release of the CAASPP results as a guiding tool that will help educators across the state make the necessary adjustments to assist students who are underperforming.

It is projected that the CAASPP results will be disappointing and show significant decline in performance for various subgroups, but without these results available to educators, parents, students, and the public, teachers will not have a fundamental base from which to prepare students to succeed.

Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator

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Socio-Economically Disadvantaged: Class & Money

Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Students

"The Sub-Group of Class and Money"

Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas

Socio-Economically Disadvantaged are a subgroup of students that has limited or no access to social programs or financial resources.  When societies are created and developed, a structural hierarchy tends to evolve over time.  These structural hierarchies can be defined by the roles and responsibilities needed by the society from groups and individuals, or by the finances and earnings that individuals and groups acquire through various means.  Socio-Economically Disadvantaged (SED) students face not only a social barrier, but an economic one as well, as they attempt to achieve educational equality with their piers.

The two main obstacles that Socio-Economically Disadvantaged students face are the societal level of hierarchy in which they are, and the economical earnings achievable at their current level of societal hierarchy.  It is natural that an achievement gap develop between students with advantages and students with disadvantages.  History shows us that the elite, aristocratic, well-off 1%er can and do provide an educational level to their students that include, not only the best academic institutions, but knowledge, educators, teachers, instructors, and tutors. 

Achievement gap between disadvantaged and advantaged.  Those who have limited access to knowledge, educational institutions, and instructional time will always be at an academic disadvantage.  This educational achievement gap needs to be acknowledge, addressed and closed.

Helping students in the Socio-Economically Disadvantage Sub-Group close the achievement gap, and achieve educational equality with their S-E advantaged counterparts is beneficial to society, the economy, and education.  Benefiting these three areas serves the purpose of becoming a better prepared people who will be ready to face any future challenge that may come.  Beneficial contributions to the world have come from advantaged and disadvantage students alike.

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