RE: [xmca] Fwd: NYTimes.com: Hispanic Immigrants' Children Fall Behind Peers Early, Study Finds

["Peter Smagorinsky" <smago@uga.edu>]

So, I'm wondering, by what measure are these kids determined to be
cognitively behind? The author of the study sounds Anglo, and Luis Moll has
argued for decades that conventional US school measurements overlook the
sophisticated cognitive work accomplished in Mexican-American community
life, e.g., distilling medicine from crickets, repairing machinery, and
otherwise spinning straw into gold in the face of poverty. Might there be
the sort of mismatch between cultural knowledge and research measurement
that Mike Cole has brought to my attention for many years? One lesson I've
learned from Mike is that if kids are doing poorly on tasks, then change the
task and see what happens. Is the mismeasurement of man and woman at work
here?

Peter Smagorinsky
Professor of English Education 
Department of Language and Literacy Education
The University of Georgia
125 Aderhold Hall
Athens, GA 30602
smago@uga.edu


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Peers Early, Study Finds

NY Times story with implications for many of us.
mike

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 By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
 The children tend to start life on intellectual par with other American
children, but by age 2 they begin to lag in linguistic and cognitive skills,
a U.C. Berkeley study shows.
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