[reaganaut1]

The report assumes that state governments have the responsibility of achieving equal outcomes on Advanced Placement exams for all groups, and that differences in results prove "inequity". They do not. There is no guarantee that equally good schools for all groups will produce equal results, because their are cultural differences between groups and because IMO there are probably intelligence differences between groups.

Bush's NCLB has the same problem.

[poinq]

There are intelligence differences between ethnic groups. But even though they are measured a thousand times you are not supposed to notice. Smart people are likely to have smart children. They do not have to have smart children. But they are far more likely to have smart children. And it does not matter what school you send them to. You cannot make a low IQ child into a high IQ child. You can stunt a high IQ child if you let the teachers union at them.

[Nervous Tick]

This is easy to achieve.

Take points from the hardest working white and Asian students, and add them to certain AA and Hispanic students’ scores.

Hey, it works with income...

[blau993]

Today's Washington Post article on the same subject noted, as it had to, that DC schools rank near the bottom of the heap and had achieved only a very modest gain. It then quoted a spokesperson for DC schools who said one must bear in mind that these numbers reflected only the DC public schools and did not include the City's charter schools.

The education establishment in DC has long been opposed to charter schools, criticizes them constantly, and fights their expansion every step of the way. But now it admits that they are getting the job done better than their public counterparts. Of course, charter schools also tend to siphon off those students whose parents really care about the quality of the education their children are getting, so it wouldn't be hugely surprising that they would do better even if all other things were equal.