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NY Teacher Exam Thrown Out For Being Discriminatory (because too many minorities flunk it)
Daily Caller ^ | June 6, 2015 | Blake Neff

Posted on 06/07/2015 5:17:44 AM PDT by Zakeet

A federal judge in New York has struck down a test used by New York City to vet potential teachers, finding the test of knowledge illegally discriminated against racial minorities due to their lower scores.

At first glance, the city’s second Liberal Arts and Science Test (LAST-2) seems fairly innocuous. Unlike the unfair literacy tests of Jim Crow, LAST-2 was given to every teaching candidate in New York, and it was simply a test to make sure that teachers had a basic high school-level understanding of both the liberal arts and the sciences.

One sample question from the test asked prospective educators to identify the mathematical principle of a linear relationship when given four examples; another asked them to read four passages from the Constitution and identify which illustrated checks and balances. Besides factual knowledge, the test also checks basic academic skills, such as reading comprehension and the ability to read basic charts and graphs.

Nevertheless, this apparently neutral subject matter contained an insidious kernel of racism, because Hispanic and black applicants had a passage rate only 54 to 75 percent of the passage rate for whites.

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Minorities who failed the exam (who number in the thousands) may be owed years of back pay totaling millions of dollars, and those who were relegated to substitute teaching jobs could be promoted to having their own classrooms.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: competency; education; racism; teachers
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To: Zakeet

Justice Wood was appointed to the US. District Court by President Ronald Reagan on the recommendation of Senator Alphonse D’Amato.

Conservative Presidents do not necessarily appoint strict constructionists to the bench.


41 posted on 06/07/2015 6:34:29 AM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: Zakeet

It absolutely boggles the mind. The next stop on the trip to the looney bin will be rejecting majority teachers because they can’t teach in hip-hop, rap, ebonics, and jive.


42 posted on 06/07/2015 6:46:40 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: wintertime

I had not heard of this test, either. Looks like a good source for practical math drills!


43 posted on 06/07/2015 6:47:26 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Everybody wants to be a cat.)
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To: bert
Which will die first...... New York or Los Angeles?

Loaded question. From implosion, both will die simultaneously a slow and agonizing. Otherwise, from earthquake, Los Angeles. From nuclear detonation, New York. From Hurricane, prolly New York.

44 posted on 06/07/2015 6:48:24 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers)
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To: gasport

Down with Success! Achievement is Racist!


45 posted on 06/07/2015 6:49:50 AM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: Zakeet

This is just the latest of a mountain of evidence that we have become a sick society.


46 posted on 06/07/2015 6:50:11 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: Liz

“A very disturbing trend.”

Many have learned that the easiest path to success is to point at a person having light skin and yell “racism!”, and that person & associated will do anything to satisfy the accuser. So long as that response continues, so will the trend.


47 posted on 06/07/2015 6:52:21 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Hillary:polarizing/calculating/disingenuous/insincere/ambitious/inevitable/entitled/overconfident/se)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

As stupid as she is, we do need to at least credit her for holding a copy of the constitution and saying (in her awkward way) that it puts bounds on the government.


48 posted on 06/07/2015 6:52:35 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: Zakeet

What is really bad is that only 75% of whites passed this.
I read through the sample test, and with just a little thought got every question right.
If someone who wants to be a teacher can’t pass this, he should find out the requirements to be a barista.
It’s frightening that they would want to make the test easier, even if minorities don’t do as well as whites.


49 posted on 06/07/2015 6:55:53 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Zakeet

You can’t fix stupid.


50 posted on 06/07/2015 6:56:31 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: metmom
Another Reason to Homeschool

Pity the poor captives ( Oops! “students”) who are forced by the government to be confined in classrooms with these semi-literate and likely nearly totally innumerate “teachers”.

51 posted on 06/07/2015 6:58:39 AM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: Zakeet

Hopefully the usual conmen won’t use this as a fund raiser rip off of nice everyday conservative men and women. Trying to save public schools is like trying push magna back into the volcano.


52 posted on 06/07/2015 7:02:02 AM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: Zakeet

Page 4 of the “Test Taking Strategies” page in the actual Preparation Guide is highly discriminatory. Who could POSSIBLY comply with these burdensome directives?

1. Be On Time.
Arrive at the test center on time so that you are rested and ready to begin the test when instructed to do so.

2. Follow Directions.
At the beginning of the test session and throughout the test, follow all directions carefully.


53 posted on 06/07/2015 7:06:02 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: Flick Lives
An instant pass / fail exam, one might say.

A minor problem.
The homeowner, not the electrician, might one day fail a skin resistance test on an backfed, ungrounded panel.

54 posted on 06/07/2015 7:11:23 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (BINGO!)
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To: MeshugeMikey

The DNCNEA teachers unionist wants to write the test:

1) Is America bad?
a) YES
b) YES
c) HELL YES
d) maybe

2) Is man made global climate change real?
a) YES
b) YES
c) HELL YES
d) no and the Earth is flat and I own too many guns

3) 2+2=
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) => 4 <=

4) ur is the abbreviation of
a) ‘you’re’, ‘your’, and ‘you are’ all of which mean the same
b) Uruguay

5) True or false, “’Uruguay’ means ‘you, are you ghey? when texting”.

THE END


U will notiss that the above test includes portions on history, science, maths, and grammar.


55 posted on 06/07/2015 7:17:01 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: petercooper

That was so easy. I must be a racist.


56 posted on 06/07/2015 7:38:19 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Where there is life, there is hope. - Terri Schiavo ~ Þ)
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To: junta
Reforming K-12 Indoctrination is like:

fighting a raging forest fire with a water pistol.

Or...Throwing a grape in the air expecting to hit Jupiter.

Or...expecting Bernie Sanders to embrace free markets.

Or....

57 posted on 06/07/2015 7:44:21 AM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: bert
Which will die first...... New York or Los Angeles?

Depends upon which port can most readily be reached by an ISIS suicide ship carrying an Iranian nuke.

58 posted on 06/07/2015 7:56:32 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Zakeet

They are changing the questions now.

e.g. U justss got back from your mofo dealuH and he gavee you 5 dime and 2 nickel bags. You snorted a dime and your runnuhhhh stole 2. Hwwww muchh left?


59 posted on 06/07/2015 7:56:39 AM PDT by BushCountry (If you're wondering, "I got my screenname before GW was elected the first time.")
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To: VRW Conspirator

I’ll go with your otherwise


60 posted on 06/07/2015 8:22:43 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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