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DOE creating team to bring diversity to elite schools
NY Post ^ | June 10, 2016 | Selim Algat

Posted on 06/10/2016 11:33:51 AM PDT by EinNYC

The Department of Education wants to bolster minority enrollment at the city’s elite high schools with a set of new reforms slated to kick off this summer.

Officials said black and Hispanic students comprise 68 percent of city school students but only make up 11 percent of specialized high school enrollment.

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


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: diversity; education; educationdept
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Ah, the tyranny of the bell-shaped curve! Politicians believe they can abolish it by passing a law (like No Child Left Behind etc) but it just won’t go away! The fact that different groups occupy different places on the curve, merely show the curve to be racist. We can all pretend not to notice it, but it will aways be there, and no matter what we might be measuring, half will be below average.


21 posted on 06/10/2016 12:19:10 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed

It’s a well known fact that a minority kid simply cannot learn unless he or she is sitting next to a white kid!


22 posted on 06/10/2016 12:20:43 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: LostPassword

“If he really want to fix things, he needs to start with parents of pre-schoolers. Get them to care and in 10-15 years we’ll have a diverse group of elite students.”

Nope. Intelligence is no less hereditary than height.

Some groups just don’t have the horsepower.


23 posted on 06/10/2016 12:20:57 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed

It’s a well known fact that a minority kid simply cannot learn unless he or she is sitting next to a white kid!


24 posted on 06/10/2016 12:21:33 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: EinNYC

The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life is a 1994 book by psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and political scientist Charles Murray, in which they argue that human intelligence is substantially influenced by both inherited and environmental factors and is a better predictor of many personal dynamics, including financial income, job performance, birth out of wedlock, and involvement in crime than are an individual’s parental socioeconomic status, or education level. They also argue that those with high intelligence, the “cognitive elite”, are becoming separated from those of average and below-average intelligence.


25 posted on 06/10/2016 1:01:35 PM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998
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To: Dick Bachert

“Diversity” is merely code for the destruction of white culture and Western Civilization.

The goal is to destroy every last thing about us that makes us exceptional.


26 posted on 06/10/2016 2:17:00 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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27 posted on 06/10/2016 3:44:55 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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