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A Georgia Tech researcher asks: Where are the black students in science, math?
Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | 9:43 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16, 2013 | Kamau Bobb

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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(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: atlanta; blackstudents; education; georgiatech; highereducation; missing; stem
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Staggering numbers.
1 posted on 09/17/2013 6:53:55 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: FreedomPoster

Another Ping. Worth reading the whole article.


2 posted on 09/17/2013 6:55:12 PM PDT by Pan_Yan (I love it when spell check highlights every single word.)
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To: Pan_Yan

It’s the IQ thing. Known for a long, long time, but we’re not supposed to talk about it.


3 posted on 09/17/2013 6:55:40 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (21st century. I'm not a fan.)
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To: Pan_Yan

Studying science ain’t keepin’ it real.


4 posted on 09/17/2013 6:56:25 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Pan_Yan
A Georgia Tech researcher asks: Where are the black students in science, math?

Selling meth.

5 posted on 09/17/2013 6:56:45 PM PDT by doc1019
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Math? Science? I did not expect them to know that since they can’t read “cursive writing”.

No that did not need a /sarc tag


6 posted on 09/17/2013 6:58:17 PM PDT by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Pan_Yan
Where are the black students in science, math?

Dey out makin rap yo. Voop, voop muggafluga, Voop, voop muggafluga

Dat where da money at yo.

7 posted on 09/17/2013 6:59:23 PM PDT by stboz
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To: dfwgator
Studying science ain’t keepin’ it real.

BIG part of it. Actin' white and all.

8 posted on 09/17/2013 7:00:24 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Pan_Yan

I recall some things Thomas Jefferson wrote concerning the intelligence of Blacks. I do not recall everything exactly except it agreed completely with what modern IQ tests show.

I do recall that Math and abstract reasoning were their weak points but he considered them close to equal to whites in verbal skills.


9 posted on 09/17/2013 7:00:56 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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black students are excluded from much of the STEM conversation and are nearly entirely excluded from the higher level STEM education discourse

Conversation? Discourse? What planet are they from?

10 posted on 09/17/2013 7:02:09 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: dfwgator
yeah, real stooopid...
11 posted on 09/17/2013 7:02:19 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Pan_Yan

No, they are not excluded, they are not well enough educated or interested in the STEM programs.


12 posted on 09/17/2013 7:02:46 PM PDT by Chickensoup (...We didn't love freedom enough... Solzhenitsyn.)
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To: Pan_Yan

Same place women are

Not there

And so effing what pray tell


13 posted on 09/17/2013 7:03:42 PM PDT by wardaddy (the next Dark Ages are coming as Western Civilization crumbles with nary a whimper)
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To: Pan_Yan

According to the newspaper, the tests are too hard.


14 posted on 09/17/2013 7:04:07 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Black students, on average, perform worse academically and have lower IQs. Math and science are fields that require an absolute correct answer via a formula. You cannot BS through those fields like you can many of the social sciences or African-American studies.


15 posted on 09/17/2013 7:04:58 PM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
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To: Pan_Yan
Fascinating read:

The Bell Curve

1994

Richard J Herrnstein and Charles Murray

16 posted on 09/17/2013 7:05:17 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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I'm from a group that does poorly in such tests. I, however, am an exception. Whats special about me? I was raised in an upper middle class family, whose parents made damn sure he did well in school, whose parents encouraged learning and intellectual pursuits.

American "black" culture is a failure, academically speaking. I don't think its as genetic as many here might think, I knew too many minorities in college, usually from a non-American black upbringing, who were in engineering and science, and did as well as I did. Its mostly a cultural debacle we have witnessed.

17 posted on 09/17/2013 7:05:22 PM PDT by Paradox (Unexpected things coming for the next few years.)
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To: Morgana

Math? That be old skool! We gots calcumlaters for dat.


18 posted on 09/17/2013 7:05:52 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Pan_Yan

There may be several variables, but the teachers unions and the liberal local and state gummints certainly did not help.


19 posted on 09/17/2013 7:06:36 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

IQ,,,,,
had a post here many weeks ago about that,

Any help ??

Bueller,


20 posted on 09/17/2013 7:07:14 PM PDT by Big Red Badger ("don't hurt me , G 'man!")
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