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Triumph Fades on Racial Gap in New York City Schools
New York Times ^ | August 15, 2010 | SHARON OTTERMAN and ROBERT GEBELOFF

Posted on 08/16/2010 5:41:23 AM PDT by reaganaut1

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The ugly reality is that you can't equalize academic achievement between whites and blacks when the average IQ of blacks is one standard deviation below that of whites.
1 posted on 08/16/2010 5:41:26 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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Reducing racial gaps in educational performance has been a national preoccupation for decades. But after substantial progress in the 1970s and ’80s, the effort has largely stalled,””


2 posted on 08/16/2010 5:45:22 AM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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Hey, I know: Let’s end the Gifted and Talented programs for white kids, as well as any other programs that put emphasis on striving and excellence. Then, let’s put rules in place that only allow blacks and hispanics/illegals into any kind of academic program, kinda like they do with the pre-K programs, which are designed specifically to exclude white children.
I doubt there is a single white child in a pre-K program in all of America. It just does not happen, because it’s designed not to happen.


3 posted on 08/16/2010 5:46:15 AM PDT by I Buried My Guns (Novare Res!)
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One standard deviation?


4 posted on 08/16/2010 5:47:23 AM PDT by wastedyears (The Founders revolted for less.)
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The ugly reality is that you can't equalize academic achievement between whites and blacks when the average IQ of blacks is one standard deviation below that of whites.

So long as doing well in academics is viewed as "acting white" in the black community, and widespread use of a foreign language is present in the hispanic community, they'll continue to be the bottom rung of the American ladder.

5 posted on 08/16/2010 5:48:14 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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You can do it by handicapping the Whites. Although I think the difference is cultural not mental. Liberalism is all about handicapping. Like adding weight to a fast horse. Equal mediocraty is the goal. Socialist engineering at its finest.


6 posted on 08/16/2010 5:48:18 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (m)
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“The ugly reality is that you can’t equalise academic achievement between whites and blacks when the average IQ of blacks is one standard deviation below that of whites. “

Your statement is racial.


7 posted on 08/16/2010 5:48:20 AM PDT by rsobin
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One standard deviation?

15 points, in other words.

8 posted on 08/16/2010 5:48:43 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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With the illegitimacy rate among blacks at 70% and climbing, don’t expect any breakthroughs from the educational system.


9 posted on 08/16/2010 5:48:57 AM PDT by nascarnation
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These authoritarian elistists are group IQ deniers. Facts mean nothing to them.

Nevertheless, a heavy dose of reality to the leftist social engineering planners BUMP.


10 posted on 08/16/2010 5:50:34 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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Bloviatin’ Bloomberg never thought the scores would be tested by an outside source. He believed his lies would prevail.


11 posted on 08/16/2010 5:51:17 AM PDT by Carley (For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
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The ugly reality is that you can’t equalize academic achievement between whites and blacks when...

...too many black students believe that studying is a betrayal of their ‘color’. Doing well in school is ‘offensive’ to his homeys; it’s called “acting white” and it is punished.


12 posted on 08/16/2010 5:51:51 AM PDT by maica (Freedom consists not in doing what we like,but in having the right to do what we ought. John Paul II)
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Exactly, if you can’t raise your group up, then you bring the group you are compared with down.

Obama’s economic plan in a nutshell also.


13 posted on 08/16/2010 5:54:08 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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I really don’t think there is an intrinsic difference between intelligence levels between the races. The difference is upbringing. If kids of different races are raised and nurtured in two parent households that are both challenging and supportive the intelligence will be virtually equal across the races.

Too many black kids are raised in environments that don’t come close to resembling a family. And more and more white kids are experiencing the same. Society is rapidly dissolving.


14 posted on 08/16/2010 5:55:04 AM PDT by killermosquito (Buffalo (and eventually France) is what you get when liberalism runs its course.)
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I refer you to a book - The Bell Curve.

“The Bell Curve is a controversial, best-selling 1994 book by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray exploring the role of intelligence in American life.


15 posted on 08/16/2010 5:55:15 AM PDT by BillM
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:”“The ugly reality is that you can’t equalise academic achievement between whites and blacks when the average IQ of blacks is one standard deviation below that of whites. “

Your statement is racial.”


It would be racist ONLY if the number is false. Can you state and prove another number?

If so please do.

The “Bell Curve” would seem to support the premise but I cannot recall the actual deviation value.


16 posted on 08/16/2010 5:56:17 AM PDT by Wurlitzer (Welcome to the new USSA (United Socialist States of Amerika))
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He is the HIC Handicapper in Chief. We must make sure we slow down the fast horse to equal the old Nag. Make him drag wahtever weight is required to assure they get there at the same time...or never.


17 posted on 08/16/2010 5:56:35 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (m)
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To: killermosquito

What YOU think is interesting, but what do you KNOW?

How do you plan actions without analysis and true understanding (not feeling)?


18 posted on 08/16/2010 5:57:03 AM PDT by BillM
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Yes, it is a “racial” statement.
So is the test and survey results, because they broke them down by RACIAL group.

Perhaps you meant

“THAT’S RACIST!”

and didn’t think such a thing should be said?

Political correctness: Punishing the telling of the truth in order to prevent an accurate solution to the problem revealed.


19 posted on 08/16/2010 5:58:25 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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I think the test is racist

because of the gap between the Asian students and the White students!


20 posted on 08/16/2010 5:59:02 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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