Posted on 08/16/2010 5:41:23 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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When results from the 2010 tests, which state officials said presented a more accurate portrayal of students’ abilities, were released last month, they came as a blow to the legacy of the mayor and the chancellor, as passing rates dropped by more than 25 percentage points on most tests. But the most painful part might well have been the evaporation of one of their signature accomplishments: the closing of the racial achievement gap.
Among the students in the city’s third through eighth grades, 40 percent of black students and 46 percent of Hispanic students met state standards in math, compared with 75 percent of white students and 82 percent of Asian students. In English, 33 percent of black students and 34 percent of Hispanic students are now proficient, compared with 64 percent among whites and Asians.
“The claims were based on some bad information,” said Michael J. Petrilli, a vice president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a research group that studies education policy. “On achievement, the story in New York City is of some modest progress, but not the miracle that the mayor and the chancellor would like to claim.”
Reducing racial gaps in educational performance has been a national preoccupation for decades. But after substantial progress in the 1970s and ’80s, the effort has largely stalled, except for a brief period from 1999 to 2004, where there were some gains, particularly in reading, according to a report released this month by the Educational Testing Service, which develops standardized tests used across the country.
The achievement gap was also the main thrust of the No Child Left Behind law, which mandated annual testing for all students in grades three through eight and required school systems to track the performance of each racial and ethnic group
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Reducing racial gaps in educational performance has been a national preoccupation for decades. But after substantial progress in the 1970s and ’80s, the effort has largely stalled,””
Hey, I know: Let’s end the Gifted and Talented programs for white kids, as well as any other programs that put emphasis on striving and excellence. Then, let’s put rules in place that only allow blacks and hispanics/illegals into any kind of academic program, kinda like they do with the pre-K programs, which are designed specifically to exclude white children.
I doubt there is a single white child in a pre-K program in all of America. It just does not happen, because it’s designed not to happen.
One standard deviation?
So long as doing well in academics is viewed as "acting white" in the black community, and widespread use of a foreign language is present in the hispanic community, they'll continue to be the bottom rung of the American ladder.
You can do it by handicapping the Whites. Although I think the difference is cultural not mental. Liberalism is all about handicapping. Like adding weight to a fast horse. Equal mediocraty is the goal. Socialist engineering at its finest.
“The ugly reality is that you can’t equalise academic achievement between whites and blacks when the average IQ of blacks is one standard deviation below that of whites. “
Your statement is racial.
15 points, in other words.
With the illegitimacy rate among blacks at 70% and climbing, don’t expect any breakthroughs from the educational system.
These authoritarian elistists are group IQ deniers. Facts mean nothing to them.
Nevertheless, a heavy dose of reality to the leftist social engineering planners BUMP.
Bloviatin’ Bloomberg never thought the scores would be tested by an outside source. He believed his lies would prevail.
The ugly reality is that you can’t equalize academic achievement between whites and blacks when...
...too many black students believe that studying is a betrayal of their ‘color’. Doing well in school is ‘offensive’ to his homeys; it’s called “acting white” and it is punished.
Exactly, if you can’t raise your group up, then you bring the group you are compared with down.
Obama’s economic plan in a nutshell also.
I really don’t think there is an intrinsic difference between intelligence levels between the races. The difference is upbringing. If kids of different races are raised and nurtured in two parent households that are both challenging and supportive the intelligence will be virtually equal across the races.
Too many black kids are raised in environments that don’t come close to resembling a family. And more and more white kids are experiencing the same. Society is rapidly dissolving.
I refer you to a book - The Bell Curve.
“The Bell Curve is a controversial, best-selling 1994 book by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray exploring the role of intelligence in American life.
:”“The ugly reality is that you can’t equalise academic achievement between whites and blacks when the average IQ of blacks is one standard deviation below that of whites. “
Your statement is racial.”
If so please do.
The “Bell Curve” would seem to support the premise but I cannot recall the actual deviation value.
He is the HIC Handicapper in Chief. We must make sure we slow down the fast horse to equal the old Nag. Make him drag wahtever weight is required to assure they get there at the same time...or never.
What YOU think is interesting, but what do you KNOW?
How do you plan actions without analysis and true understanding (not feeling)?
Yes, it is a “racial” statement.
So is the test and survey results, because they broke them down by RACIAL group.
Perhaps you meant
“THAT’S RACIST!”
and didn’t think such a thing should be said?
Political correctness: Punishing the telling of the truth in order to prevent an accurate solution to the problem revealed.
I think the test is racist
because of the gap between the Asian students and the White students!
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