Summary: The passage mainly talks about the academic achievement gaps between students who have different family backgrounds, social classes and are different races. At the beginning, the author point out that black and Hispanic student’s averagely 20 test-score points lower than their white peers. Then data from the U.S. Department Education show that core academic courses, both for Hispanic students, white students, Asian American and Pacific Islander students, and black students, has improved, though Hispanic students and Asian American students were in a leading place. Such differences also are obvious in graduation-rate and college-success statistics. White students and Asian students have a higher graduation rate compared with Hispanic, black and American Indian students, and female students has a higher graduation-rate when compares with male students. Additionally, some extra data reveals that the African American and Hispanics have lower rate of getting an associate degree compared with all American students, and female also take advantage of having a higher rate of holding a bachelor’s degree. Achievement disparities are also be attributed to socioeconomic factors. The children live in poverty have a poor skill of using language, and their dropout rates are also higher. Besides, educational resources and funding policies can exaggerate the gaps. Black, Latino, and poor students are several times as likely as white students to attend the worst-performing school, yet the equitable distribution of educational resources is also an issue existing in achievement disparities. Moreover, some subtle factors such as peer pressure, student tracking, and negative stereotypes also partly explain the achievement gaps between different students. For better solving these problems and closing gaps, schools have adopted various tactics to try to eliminate disparities, and still educators are exploring new ways to achieve their goal. Comment: I think the idea that different races and classes are a strong predictor of student’s educational attainment is quiet interesting and thoughtful. Obviously, we can not simply conclude the achievement gap between different students is merely because they are different races. There are many onerous factors come together to form gaps. I totally agree with the article that the overlapping factors such as family income, family backgrounds, and socioeconomic status are reasons caused achievement gaps among students. Additionally, analyses of the disparities among different students’ growing-up environment, influences came from their parents make me believe that these factors which might be ignored by people turn out to be more convincing. Some subtle factors such as peer pressure, untruth stereotypes, and even unfair test can also contribute to achievement gaps. These minor factors is quiet believable by comprehensively analyze the different situations which could fit in different students, and give some other cons ...

1. Summary: The passage mainly talks about the academic
achievement gaps between students who have different family
backgrounds, social classes and are different races. At the
beginning, the author point out that black and Hispanic
student’s averagely 20 test-score points lower than their white
peers. Then data from the U.S. Department Education show that
core academic courses, both for Hispanic students, white
students, Asian American and Pacific Islander students, and
black students, has improved, though Hispanic students and
Asian American students were in a leading place. Such
differences also are obvious in graduation-rate and college-
success statistics. White students and Asian students have a
higher graduation rate compared with Hispanic, black and
American Indian students, and female students has a higher
graduation-rate when compares with male students.
Additionally, some extra data reveals that the African American
and Hispanics have lower rate of getting an associate degree
compared with all American students, and female also take
advantage of having a higher rate of holding a bachelor’s
degree. Achievement disparities are also be attributed to
socioeconomic factors. The children live in poverty have a poor
skill of using language, and their dropout rates are also higher.
Besides, educational resources and funding policies can
exaggerate the gaps. Black, Latino, and poor students are
several times as likely as white students to attend the worst-
performing school, yet the equitable distribution of educational
resources is also an issue existing in achievement disparities.
Moreover, some subtle factors such as peer pressure, student
tracking, and negative stereotypes also partly explain the
achievement gaps between different students. For better solving
these problems and closing gaps, schools have adopted various
tactics to try to eliminate disparities, and still educators are
exploring new ways to achieve their goal.

2. Comment: I think the idea that different races and classes are a
strong predictor of student’s educational attainment is quiet
interesting and thoughtful. Obviously, we can not simply
conclude the achievement gap between different students is
merely because they are different races. There are many onerous
factors come together to form gaps. I totally agree with the
article that the overlapping factors such as family income,
family backgrounds, and socioeconomic status are reasons
caused achievement gaps among students. Additionally,
analyses of the disparities among different students’ growing-up
environment, influences came from their parents make me
believe that these factors which might be ignored by people turn
out to be more convincing. Some subtle factors such as peer
pressure, untruth stereotypes, and even unfair test can also
contribute to achievement gaps. These minor factors is quiet
believable by comprehensively analyze the different situations
which could fit in different students, and give some other
considerations by ruling out the possibilities that students’
natural abilities, different races and background etc. hence,
generally, I think all the ideas in the passage are acceptable and
truthful.
Question: why the white and Asian-American students generally
have a better academic performances than Hispanic and black
students?
Research Question: reducing class sizes, creating smaller
schools, expanding early-childhood programs, raising academic
standards can really help to close gaps?
Summary: Firstly the passage introduces backgrounds of two
famous universities---Peking university and Tsinghua university
of China. It says that students in these two universities live a
live that can easily contact to foreign cultures and they have

3. overseas education backgrounds. Then, the passage describe the
China’s education system by saying that less wealthy citizens
have less chance to make a progress in the whole society,
because of the bureaucratic and financial barriers. The
inequitable educational resources distribution cause some of the
students can accept qualified education, while others can not.
Some “left-behind” and rural students have less chance to be
educated and mostly they go into the third-rate college. For
Chinese students, they have to take the national college
entrance examination, but the admission quotas are unequal in
different areas and districts. Additionally, the passage also
analyzes the problem that even an urban residency has to deal
with. For letting children go to the top schools, parents even
fork out thousands of dollars to school by adding an excuse as a
donation. In Beijing, the housing price in school districts are
extremely high, since the sought-after flats applies government
policy that students attend school in their home districts.
Besides, Chinese education places a lot of emphasis on test
score, which is more important for the poor students who want
to change their fates. Lastly, the passage compares two hugely
different lives of two children, one of who have a qualified and
merit education, while the other have to go to work after
graduating from high school.
-Country: Saudi Arabia
-Originally: from Najran city
-Immigrated to Jeddah city
-I have four brothers and four sisters.
-My father 59 years old a police man. He born and rised in
Najran and then he moved to Jeddah city because of his job and
we live in Jeddah the rest of our life. Jeddah is a big city
located in the west of Saudi Arabia. It’s a crowded, traffic on
streets and busy life compare to Najran…etc
-MY mother 42 years old a housewife. She is originally from

4. United Arab Emirates but the rest of her life in Saudi Arabia
and she always visit her family and UAE.
-My oldest brother 29 years is married and he has two sons. My
brother went to US in 2006 to get his bachelor degree in electric
engineering from university of San Francisco and he graduated
in summer 2013. And now he works in one of the biggest oil
company in Saudi Arabia (Aramco).
- My oldest sister lives with her husband and her son in Los
Anglos because of her husband studies his master degree and
my sister as well.
-my grandfather and grandmother live in Najran where my
father born and grew up. They live the rest of their life in
Najran because they like to live in a country and close to his big
farm. They the fresh air, relaxing and there is no traffic over
there. Najran located in the south of Saudi Arabia. And we visit
them once or twice a year.
-Jeddah is a big city… etc
-Najran is a country (small town)
- United Arab Emirates where my mother from… etc
Talk about people or whatever you want.