There are lies, damned lies, and then there are statistics.
This article hit the NYTimes’s website last night. Guess what the Times ran today? Another in a series of articles decrying the AP tests. You know the real reason the left wants to get rid of the AP tests, SATs, etc? Because no amount of government spending will close the gap between black students and everyone else on standardized tests. So...let’s increase wild government spending, demand more affirmative action, and abolish objective testing measures. This is part of the reason Obama wants to massively expand government and why he wants to own a chunk of Wall Street: to pack government and private industry with the same people who (as a group) persist in lagging behind everybody else, forty years after the launch of the Great Society. It’s pure racism and I cannot believe it is happening in our country.