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...particular, critics have pointed to the report's focus on the underachievement of African-Americans, Latinos and Native Americans, but not Asian-Americans. In the report the achievement of the three minority groups is contrasted against the performance of both whites and Asian Americans...
...director of the task force, whose members include DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Boston Public School Superintendent Thomas W. Payzant, said the report was not meant to suggest that Asian-Americans are not a minority group...
...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...
...report's call for more attention on certain groups of minorities does not mean the report wants less for other minorities or disadvantaged groups, according to Miller...
...improve issue A, does it have to mean that I decrease issue B?" Miller asked. "The report contains conceptual tools to benefit all disadvantaged groups...