Hispanic, white achievement gap hasn't narrowed
Hispanic, white achievement gap hasn't narrowed
- July 18, 2011
- Virginia Mann, cognitive sciences professor, is quoted in th Orange County Register July 17, 2011
From the OC Register:
Local educators who work with Latino students and other underperforming minorities
say the most effective way to combat this systemic problem is through early intervention
- before the child even reaches kindergarten. That in itself is a challenge, though,
because many Latino parents tend not to understand the importance of the early years
of a child's development, said Virginia Mann, founder of a UC Irvine-based preschool
intervention program that targets parents in Santa Ana. Consequently, these parents
tend to set up their children for failure in school. "Young Latino parents believe
they will hurt their children if they teach them Spanish, or they believe the TV will
educate them because, oh, it's in English," said Mann, a UCI cognitive sciences professor
and director of the Home Activities Building Language Acquisition program, or HABLA.
For the full story, please visit http://www.ocregister.com/news/-130356-ocprint--.html.
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