Posted on 07/25/2007 11:03:48 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenews.org ...
Bob Moses’ claims mentioned here:
Trent Lott’s Blow to Civil Rights
The New York Times | 12/18/2002 | ABIGAIL THERNSTROM
Posted on 12/17/2002 9:35:07 PM PST by Pokey78
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/808378/posts
related:
Democratic Debacle (1964 convention, repercussions today)
America Heritage | July 2004 (cover date) | Joshua Zeitz
Posted on 07/28/2004 12:59:49 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1179981/posts
The Winds of Political Changeà And Why You Almost Never Feel Them Coming
American Heritage | February/March 2005 | Kevin Baker
Posted on 03/07/2005 12:52:13 AM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1357510/posts
Whatâs Holding Blacks Back?
Source: city-journal.org
Published: Winter 2001 Author: John H. McWhorter
Posted on 03/28/2001 08:25:59 PST by Pokey78
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3ac210974cb9.htm
Does anyone have that chronology of Democrat racism?
Posted on 12/28/2005 4:38:01 PM EST by Maceman
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1548315/posts
Stolen Civil Rights
Source: self
Published: December 16th, 2000 Author: Chapita
Posted on 12/16/2000 17:53:35 PST by Chapita
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a3c1c9f19e2.htm
Civil Rights Leader Charged With Incest
San Francisco Chronicle | 6/9/07 | AP
Posted on 06/10/2007 2:20:09 AM PDT by TFFKAMM
Edited on 06/10/2007 4:20:58 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1847815/posts
JESSE JACKSON PREDICTS ‘A CIVIL RIGHTS EXPLOSION’ IF COURT SIDES WITH BUSH
Source: AFP
Published: 12/11/00
Posted on 12/11/2000 12:57:45 PST by Brian Mosely
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a353fc95d46.htm
A Choice We Don’t Want (Dems bailing on gay rights?)
The Dartmouth | 8-23-05 | Casey Ley
Posted on 08/24/2005 4:30:44 AM PDT by Hadean
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1469531/posts
This article says that poor areas have schools that get less money than wealthier areas, and that this is not unconstitutional. Okay, as far as that goes, may be a true statement.
But, Washington DC spends more per pupil than many other places, and has some of the worst public schools in the country. Money alone is not the answer.
He might want to start be seeing to it that Government school children learn basic arithmetic first.
You ‘d have to cut out some of the other classes like “Diverse Lifestyles”, “The Liberal View of American History”, “How to apply a Condom”, and others first.
Then get the kids to pay attention. They kids that want to excel usually do, the problem the instant gratification generation has ingrained the belief that you do not need to work for things in life and that listening to rap/heavy metal music. riding a skateboard, or playing ball rate a higher priority than preparing for life.
It costs more than $1.5 million to graduate a single student who is proficient in math from the Washington, D.C. public school district.
be, bee, by, bi, sputter.....
the irony is that he is right in that math is not being taught fundamentally as it was even 30 years ago. Aside from actually having to teach/pass the material as a cause/effect, I would suspect the introduction of calculators at young ages into classes for even mundane calculations is a big culprit in preventing the early grasp of basic abstract concepts in math.
Maybe some other Freepers here know, wasn’t there a court case in Kansas City which sought integration of the schools? And the judge ordered that more money be spent on the minority schools rather than just busing kids back and forth?
Anyway, the result was that in spite of greater resources and upgrading the educational facilities attended by poor and minority students, that their achievement did not increase as had been hoped for. It was a sad failure to see the complaints of poor facilities and inadequate resources directly addressed, and not see improvement in student achievement.
Sure why not... another “right”... all it takes is a bunch of lawyers and one judge to say it’s so. ;-)
I was not allow a calculator in class until college. Now my 8th grader has one and he struggling with concepts shows it.
“Math as a Civil Right: Voting rights advocate calls for mathematics literacy”
So, you have a civil right not to be stupid. My ex-wife needs to find herself a lawyer. . .
There seems to be creeping leftism at work at the Science News. Here’s an article about faux research which purports to show that collectivism works and free markets don’t. I guess that explains why the Soviet Union had bread lines for 70 years, mass deportations, mass murder by starvation and forced labor, etc etc.
Free Choice + Punishment = Cooperation
Making participation voluntary may discourage cheating
Julie J. Rehmeyer
Week of July 14, 2007; Vol. 172, No. 2
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070714/mathtrek.asp
“Math is hard.”
yes he wants to teach about racial and class division!
That is also why you never hear an American history teacher lecture on the numerous failed communist settlements in Rhode Island and other American colonies in early 18th century. It seemed that after the first year there was not enough food and other supplies and nobody wanted to work to generate them.
As is the case Americans tried it first ( 200 years before Lenin ) and found it not to work and abandoned it.
Ouch, now I have a flash back headache thanks...
Some of the stuff on nano technology is staggering.
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