Mayo grand rounds talk 2016

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Mayo Grand Rounds Talk August 9, 2016 Thank you for inviting me to talk to you today about a topic that is near and dear to my heart. I strongly believe that we need good and informed people to make a significant difference in the lives of children in this country — and I believe that our very best caregiver institutions should be in a lead role in making that difference. We have learning gaps between groups of children in our schools today that are huge, damaging, and growing. Too many schools today have 70 to 80 percent of the students from our White and Asian American groups doing well on the basic tests of reading and mathematical ability in high school but those schools only have anywhere from 20 to 40 percent of the students from our American Indian, Hispanic, and African American groups performing at grade levels on those same tests. We have huge learning gaps in our schools. Those learning gaps create lifelong problems and difficulties for the students with the lower scores. We also have far too many people in prison in our country — and far too many of the people in prison today are from our minority groups as well. Our prison populations far exceed any other country. We have seven times as many people in jail as Canada — and we have far more people in jail than any other country in the world. Those two issues are related because far too many of the people in jail are from our minority groups. Hispanic Americans are


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