http://m.npr.org/news/U.S./163703499 As part of Virginia's waiver to opt out of mandates set out in the No Child Left Behind law, the state has created a controversial new set of education goals that are higher for white and Asian kids than for blacks, Latinos and students with disabilities. Virginia Democratic state Sen. Donald McEachin first read about the state's new performance goals for schoolchildren in a newspaper editorial. "And I was shocked to find that the state board of education putting in place permanent disparities between different subgroups — Asians at the top, African-Americans at the bottom," says McEachin. Here's what the Virginia state board of education actually did. It looked at students' test scores in reading and math and then proposed new passing rates. In math it set an acceptable passing rate at 82 percent for Asian students, 68 percent for whites, 52 percent for Latinos, 45 percent for blacks and 33 percent for kids with disabilities. 弗吉尼亚不加入No Child Left Behind法案，修改了中小学及格标准线。就数学而言，亚裔及格线调整为82分，白人68分，西裔52分，黑人45分，残疾儿童（估计learning disability也包括在内）33分。不知道犹太人算在哪一栏？中东人算亚裔还是白人？弗吉尼亚是第一个，接下来该加利福尼亚、纽约、得克萨斯、马萨诸塞？等到美国大半都这样了，美国人在心理上已经打败了。现在还在撑着。 最有意思的是，弗吉尼亚教育部长辩解道： "Rest assured, all of us hold all students to the same academic standards, but when it comes to measuring progress, we have to consider that students start at different points," Wright said. 感情孩子们不都是从娘肚子里生出来的，有的是石头里蹦出来的，有的是树上长出来的，要不怎么会有“we have to consider that students start at different points”呢？ 奥巴马搞了一个No Child Left Behind计划，但33个州选择不加入，美国一共只有50个州。
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