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Proficiency of Black Students Is Found to Be Far Lower Than Expected
New York Times ^
| November 9, 2010
| Trip Gabriel
Posted on 11/09/2010 10:24:07 AM PST by lbryce
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
It is hard to pass a test if it is written in the King’s English and not ebonics. I am sure the numbers are just as low for hispanics if English is not the dominant language spoken at home.
To: lbryce
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posted on
11/09/2010 10:35:32 AM PST
by
CDFingers
(0bama calls me the enemy, but won't do the same with terrorist.)
To: All
Where are groups like the NAACP, what are folks like Squeezeee In-fom-mmee, doing about this?? Why have they failed their own people? The silence is deafening. What an outrageous morally bankrupt organization!!
These people should never be allowed to speak with any sense of indignation about how society has failed them. Where are all the demagogues, Al Sharpton, FarraKant, and their ilk? Shame on all of you.
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posted on
11/09/2010 10:37:10 AM PST
by
lbryce
(Obama Notwithstanding, America's Best Days Are Yet To Be .)
To: lbryce
Even lower than expected?... How much lower?.. And are they accurate?..
They were Not accurate the first time, how can you believe them NOW?...
Maybe the teachers are much dumber than the students.. YA!.. Think!..
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posted on
11/09/2010 10:38:27 AM PST
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
To: GeronL
So has the decline in white performance been matched by a decline in black performance? Or have the white kids just not declined enough to catch up?
To: lbryce
They are not doing well educating white boys either. "Only 12 percent of black fourth-grade boys are proficient in reading, compared with 38 percent of white boys, and only 12 percent of black eighth-grade boys are proficient in math, compared with 44 percent of white boys."
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posted on
11/09/2010 10:39:02 AM PST
by
kalee
(The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
To: SC DOC
The Bell Curve ——
And if you are 1/2 White & 1/2 Black = 1/2 A Bell !!!!
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posted on
11/09/2010 10:39:02 AM PST
by
TRY ONE
(Another Beer Summit.....another day in Debt)
To: lbryce
"... Although the outlines of the problem and many specifics have been previously reported, the group hopes that including so much of what it calls jaw-dropping data in one place will spark a new sense of national urgency." How come my jaw isn't dropping?
(Just my saying that caused liberals to drop their jaws.)
To: ModelBreaker
Its a race to the bottom, thats all I know.
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posted on
11/09/2010 10:41:18 AM PST
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
To: lbryce
When test after test all shows the same thing, it’s time to start thinking about what the tests show.
To: kalee
Hmm....Any guesses on why it wasn’t written the other way ‘round?
To: lbryce
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posted on
11/09/2010 10:44:09 AM PST
by
RobRoy
(The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
To: RC2
“Thats part of the problem. If the truth were spoken, you would be called a racist.”
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
- George Orwell
“Don’t matter how much you spend on your sawmill, you can’t cut good lumber from bad timber.”
- Grumpy
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posted on
11/09/2010 10:44:09 AM PST
by
Grumplestiltskin
(I may look new, but it's only deja vu!)
To: lbryce
It’s cause Whitey’s had his foot on the black man’s neck for 500 years.
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posted on
11/09/2010 10:44:42 AM PST
by
CholeraJoe
(Dude, your I-pod isn't a karaoke machine.)
To: All
Anyone surprised?
Lowered expectations...
To: ModelBreaker
I saw my neice’s history notes... ‘Joan of Arc “won” the Hundred Years War’ I almost thought I’d laugh to death. She must have thought that was the gist of what her teacher said because the text clearly stated that Joan of Arc “inspired” French troops with her faith (in one battle) and they won the battle of Orleans before she was captured by the English and turned over to the Inquisition.
The war lasted more than 20 more years.
....
Seriously though.... Molly Pritchard did more for the cause.
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posted on
11/09/2010 10:45:08 AM PST
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
To: lbryce
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posted on
11/09/2010 10:46:28 AM PST
by
BunnySlippers
(I love BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: lbryce
Well, gee..... 78% of black kids don't have a married mother, and a lot of them live in a hideously toxic culture that celebrates thuggery and promiscuity as the highest form of achievement.
I know some teachers who work with kids in that sort of demographic, and some of those kids come from situations the awfulness of which is hair-raising -- they're doing well just to show up; proficiency in reading and math is strictly secondary to just being in a place where they can eat breakfast and not have to hide from mom's latest "boyfriend."
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posted on
11/09/2010 10:46:41 AM PST
by
r9etb
To: GeronL
The last 25 years they have done everything they could to make all kids, whites too, as stupid as possible. The last 45 ...
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posted on
11/09/2010 10:47:06 AM PST
by
SeeSac
To: SC DOC
I've had positive feelings about the notion of
The Bell Curve. John Taylor Gatto mostly disabused me of these. Read his
Underground History of American Education. (
Amazon link) (
free pdf copy link You can probably search this pdf for references to Bell Curve and/or Murray.)
ML/NJ
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posted on
11/09/2010 10:51:06 AM PST
by
ml/nj
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