Posted on 09/17/2013 6:53:55 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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71 percent of the 2,500 black students in APS who took the Mathematics II exam in 2011, failed and only 1 percent, 25 students, passed with distinction (Pass Plus). By contrast, only 21 percent of white students failed with 79 percent passing and 23 percent of those passing with distinction.
In Fulton County, where 62 percent of black students failed the Mathematics II exam, 90 percent of the white students passed, 32 percent with distinction. The failure rates and achievement gaps throughout most of the school districts in the metro-Atlanta area are astonishing.
The consequence of this reality is that black students are excluded from much of the STEM conversation and are nearly entirely excluded from the higher level STEM education discourse. For the incoming 2013 freshman class of first time full time freshmen at Georgia Tech, for example, there were only 61 applicants from the entire Atlanta Public School system, nearly 2,500 seniors. Of those 61 applicants, 26 were admitted and 15 have enrolled.
Despite APS being 79 percent black students, only 28 percent, or 17 applicants, of the total applicants from APS were black. Of those 17 applicants, only 1 black freshman was admitted.
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The man aced EVERYTHING undergrad.
I can't explain why. He was not American. Jamaican IIRC.
He studied ALL the time, almost like it was a religion for him.
It IS mostly cultural. There are many very smart black people in this country, we just never see them because they aren't considered 'cool'. Even worse, if they're not sucking up to the Democrats, they are considered 'Uncle Toms' and are ignored by the media, when they're not being vilified by it.
Until black parents demand that their kids stay in school and stop trying to act ghetto like the latest gang banging rap star, they'll continue to be poor and uneducated, and it will be no one's fault but their own.
Indeed.
I’m still amazed by that bloated inner-tube-looking thing that is her neck. I mean, WTF?!? What does a person have to eat and/or drink to get a crazy fat neck like that by their late teens?
Yo...day be keepin it real in Ebonics and Diversity Studies...YO!
Sit yo cracka A$$ down and don’t be askin why...yo!
math and science is likely impossible to teach in ebonics
We had an American black guy in our freshman dorm group who ended up with a 4.0 in EE. This is a nontrivial accomplishment.
He was an exception though.
Wow, I think this is him:
http://s1capitalpartners.com/team/rod-randall
Reading just a little between the lines, I’m doing more than OK, and I’d estimate his net worth at easily an order of magnitude more than mine, and probably two to three.
Math and science are racist. I think we need to ban them so people of color don’t have to feel insulted.
“math and science is likely impossible to teach in ebonics”
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You got that right!
It sad much of the Black community cannot (will not) understand that white liberals (and black liberals) want them ignorant and under their thumb. “I’m going to get me some ‘Obama Money!’”
If a fly-a$$ sucka leaves Chi-Town rollin at 80 mph in a dope Marquis towards Madison, an’ an’ an’ some stupit n*gga in a beat-up chevy headed ta Chi-town at 60 mph and sh*t, nome sayin’, how long it take doze homies ta meet, an who get all da monay and b*tches?
nome sayin’....?
The facts in this article are racist.
Mathematics is racist.
I suspect that many black students would do better if they weren’t dragged down by other blacks who berate them for “acting white”.
“studyin’ science...learnin’ nuances of sizzurp vs. purple drank vs. fire ass lean. bunson burner burnin skittle’s and codeine and kool aid.”
I have no idea of what you just said.
Of course the ones who made it into college would have passed the same tests that everyone else there had also passed, so of course the black students there would have been of the same general caliber; they are a selected population, just as every other ethnic group there was also. If, in fact, the matter is truly genetic, then the relevant question is whether the group of blacks there was just as representative a sample of their population as everyone else there was of theirs. Contrary to your beliefs, I think the evidence is overwhelming that they were not, i.e. that there is a large genetic component. Which incidentally is not contradicted by, and can’t be refuted by, anecdotal, statistical outliers. (Or the performance of highly selected samples, such as your college classmates, i.e. who gained admission.)
Now I know why I failed algebra two years in a row.
“The man aced EVERYthing....
I can’t explain why.
He studied ALL the time...”
I think I see a connection.
Rhetoric error...no such construct, only baby mamas and sperm donors are producing the spawn that "achieve" such dismal results as noted in the OP. You had it right in your first paragraph and we've been on this slippery slope for about 40 years so it's a long slog back up the hill.
We believe with no resistance that certain mental illnesses, for example are hereditary; yet the evidence for that is far weaker than the evidence for heritability of intelligence. The default position of "it's all cultural" is not based on scientific data but on politics.
He happened to be black, and was really tall, so people assumed he got a basketball scholarship.
Nope, never played, Total Math & Science geek. Glad to have known him.
I've seen t-shirts that say, M.I.T.: The Georgia Tech of the North.
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