The graphic below, contributed to Costanzo.org by
Tom Dial, Ph.D., clearly shows that the likelihood that a school will
achieve the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) goals of the Bush so-called "No
Child Left Behind" law, decrease directly with the amount of poverty in
a school and the number of demographic groups enrolled in the school.
In California, a school in with a population in
the top 25% in terms of family income and with a homogeneous makeup in
terms of diversity is about four times as likely to meet
the Adequate Yearly Progress goal as a school with substantial diversity
(six separate sub-groups) and in the bottom 25% in terms of income.
California Schools’ Chances of Making AYP
Are Inversely Related to Poverty & Diversity
Source: John R. Novak & Bruce
Fuller, “Penalizing Diverse Schools?” (PACE Policy Brief
03-4), 2003)
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