Great info and post. Thanks.
Why thanks.
Followed some links to a Harvard prof’s take on Iowahawks’s numbers. He was completely in agreement, BTW.
What was interesting was one of the comments below the perfesser’s blog entry.
The poster claimed that all such statistics should be rejected before being examined because they were racist, purporting that blacks and Hispanics are incapable of learning. Other commenters promptly took him to task, rightly pointing out that what the statistics showed was that schools in WI did a less effective job of teaching minority students than those in TX.
What blew me away was the notion that we should simply ignore the facts because they were racist. How can you solve racial problems if you can’t acknowledge their existence?
Ran across a column on this issue. Numbers were slightly different than I’d remembered.
http://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2010/12/28/who_owns_the_future/page/full