In Texas, this Latina's research is helping close the education gap

For years, Ruth Lopez Turley knew about the existence of data pointing to the educational inequality faced by minority students. She also knew there were few initiatives focused on closing the gap. Now, as director of the Houston Education บาคาร่าฟรี Research Consortium (HERC), which is housed at Rice University, she harnesses the information from these statistics to help improve the lives of students.

We spoke to Lopez Turley, who has a doctorate in เล่นบาคาร่าฟรี education, about the consortium. This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.

How did your personal background lead แทงบอลฟรี you to start the consortium?

I grew up on the U.S.-Mexico border, in Laredo, Texas, where I saw some of the hardest working people I have ever seen — people like my mother who, with only an eighth-grade education, worked very hard for very little. At a young age I learned แจกเครดิตแทงบอลฟรี three things: injustice is real, people without an education experience the brunt of it, and equal opportunity in education is not guaranteed.

In your opinion, what are the most notable societal รูเล็ตฟรี repercussions of educational gaps?

The problem with educational gaps is that they are not arbitrary but systematic, meaning that specific groups are consistently and significantly more likely to be at the bottom of the performance distribution. This pattern has been the case for เว็บคาสิโนที่ดีที่สุด as long as we’ve been monitoring it. Even as all groups improve, poor, black and brown students continue to lag behind.

How do these challenges affect students?

The impact is seen in the number of dropouts, and the cases of unemployment, poverty, poor health and mental health, and incarceration. A report by McKinsey & Company estimated the economic impact of the achievement gaps to be more severe than all recessions since the 1970s — not to mention the social costs of untapped human potential.