<p>@ colt45: I really am not sure what you were trying to say with that, but I’m sure it wasn’t relevant anyway. At least try to contribute to the discussion.</p>
<p>@ dontno: What exactly is your proposition? At what point would you want the education of those who do well to split off from those who don’t? Like weasel, I’m all for increasing funding for vocational schools (colleges now do jobs they probably aren’t best qualified to do), but it sounds like you’re suggesting to sacrifice some earlier education for this.</p>
<p>@ alfredenueman: I agree that the problem lies with educational values not being instilled. Unfortunate what a difficult problem that is to fix. The best attempt I’ve seen at the achievement gap is with University of Chicago’s Charter Schools. Though clearly this can’t fix the value of education problem for the people who really don’t care (students/parents do have to apply to get in, after all), you might be interested in reading about them. Their plan is to share their data with Chicago public schools and other inner-city systems in hopes of improving all inner-city education. Here’s one of the elementary schools: [Donoghue</a> Elementary School | Background and Statistics](<a href=“usi-schools.org - This website is for sale! - usi schools Resources and Information.”>usi-schools.org - This website is for sale! - usi schools Resources and Information.).</p>