New UC Berkeley Study: Hispanic Children Lag Behind White & Asian Children In Cognitive Ability
James Miller
A forthcoming study on Hispanic children�s cognitive skills underlines the
challenges the country faces in aspiring to close the achievement gap
between these children and their white and Asian counterparts. Hispanic
�children fall behind their peers in mental development by the time they
reach grade school, and the gap tends to widen as they get older,� reports
the New York Times. �The drop-off in the cognitive scores of Hispanic
toddlers, especially those from Mexican backgrounds, was steeper than for
other [low-income] groups and could not be explained by economic status
alone. . . . From 24 to 36 months, the Hispanic children fell about six
months behind their white peers on measures like word comprehension, more
complex speech and working with their mothers on simple tasks.�
This new study, from the University of California�Berkeley, may be unusually
blunt in its assessment of Hispanic cognitive development, but it is hardly
unprecedented.
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