Word: miller
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...Scott Miller, director of the National Task Force on Minority High Achievement, said the task force was charged specifically with studying African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans, not all minorities or under-performing students...
...task force] was not convened to work on how to improve all students who under-perform," Miller said. "Nowhere will you find in the report a finding that we should do less for any disadvantaged kids...
...Miller justifies the exclusion of Asian Americans by pointing to the specific nature of the under-achievement that the committee was investigating...
This is not the case for Asian-Americans, according to Miller. Children of well-educated Asian-American parents do equally well as white children of well-educated parents, he said...
...focused on a certain set of issues and not others," Miller said...