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No Racial Quotas in Special Education
Wall Street Journal ^ | February 13, 2018 | Jason L. Riley

Posted on 02/14/2018 5:44:18 AM PST by reaganaut1

The Trump administration spent much of its first year blocking or delaying its predecessor’s regulations. Thankfully, that work continues apace in year two. Any day now, look for the Education Department to halt implementation of an Obama -era rule on racial disparities in special education that was set to take full effect in July.

Black students are more likely than white students to be placed in special-education classes, and the Obama administration attributed the disparity (along with nearly every black-white gap) to racial bias. Thus in late 2016, weeks before leaving office, Obama officials issued a rule that threatened school districts with financial penalties if they didn’t achieve racial balance in special ed.

The rule, which would effectively impose racial quotas, is likely unconstitutional. Moreover, academic research shows that racial bias is not the cause of disproportionate representation of black pupils in special ed. Anyone who cares about the prospects of minority youngsters should welcome the Trump administration’s decision to put the rule on hold.

A 2015 study by scholars at UC Irvine and Penn State University found that black children are more likely than white children to be born prematurely and have high levels of lead in their blood, among other factors that often result in learning disabilities and speech impairments. When otherwise similar groups of black and white adolescents were compared, the data didn’t show that black students were more likely to be placed in special education classes. In fact, it showed the opposite: “The real problem is that black children are underrepresented in special-education classes when compared with white children with similar levels of academic achievement, behavior and family economic resources,” two of the authors, Paul Morgan and George Farkas, wrote in an op-ed.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: bellcurve; blackstudents; disability; education; iq; specialeducation
There should not be racial quotas in gifted education or higher education either. The IQ distributions of whites and blacks are centered at 100 and 85, and this means that there will be large "disparities" in the fractions of whites and blacks above and below various IQ cut-offs.
1 posted on 02/14/2018 5:44:18 AM PST by reaganaut1
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When Johnny or Judy can’t read or write in the 5th grade, they need to be in special education classes to catch up. If they preponderance is black, why? You will find that it traces back to family and peers who disparage education.


2 posted on 02/14/2018 5:47:18 AM PST by rstrahan
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Watch it there, fellow.
Quoting real science in front of liberals is like telling the truth about Mohamed in front of a Muslim.


3 posted on 02/14/2018 5:53:15 AM PST by Da Coyote
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There should not be racial quotas in gifted education or higher education either.

Fixed it.

4 posted on 02/14/2018 6:02:46 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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One difficulty in testing Black children is that many of them are non-lingual. They have such limited English skills that they test as Special Needs. Sad.


5 posted on 02/14/2018 6:15:32 AM PST by txrefugee
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You dare speak truth?

Brave man.


6 posted on 02/14/2018 6:20:36 AM PST by null and void (What do the democrats stand for? Not record low black unemployment...)
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To: null and void

Anonymity on the internet is important, so that people can say non-PC things. That’s why leftists dislike anonymous comments sections.


7 posted on 02/14/2018 6:23:38 AM PST by reaganaut1
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I’m sure the mods will give you a pass...


8 posted on 02/14/2018 6:27:31 AM PST by null and void (What do the democrats stand for? Not record low black unemployment...)
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Raciss...of course!


9 posted on 02/14/2018 6:49:12 AM PST by gr8eman (Facts and evidence are bourgeois constructs weaponized by patriarchal penis-people)
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There need to be objective measures, in the form of IQ tests, upon which determinations about placements are made, so that claims of racial bias can be disproven, and truth can triumph over the publicly-funded fantasies of so-called social justice warriors.


10 posted on 02/14/2018 6:53:33 AM PST by Architect of Avalon
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