Posted on 07/04/2018 8:09:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
Colleges are happy to take gov’t loan & grant money for as long as they can fill the seats.
She will find there is no free speech and expression in academe.
“The K-12 education that most blacks receive is grossly fraudulent. Most predominately black schools are costly yet grossly inferior to predominately white schools and are in cities where blacks hold considerable political power, such as Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago and Philadelphia. In these and other cities, it’s not uncommon for there to be high schools where less than 17 percent of the students test proficient in reading, and often not a single student in such schools tests proficient in math. Nonetheless, many receive high school diplomas.”
Cue up any commentary by the NEA about this. Listen for the crickets. Take DC for instance, where spending in the public schools is the highest per student in the country. Results are poor. None of the elected bums would even consider putting their kids in public school. Yet all we hear from the educational unions is we need higher pay. IMO, culture plays a far larger roll in education achievement than teacher pay.
It's not just the schools, it's the over-all culture. By puberty, kids are most influenced by their peers. If their peers don't think school is important, they won't either. Inertia grips the entire student body and even if you swapped teachers with the best "white" school in the state, you wouldn't get that much difference in result.
"where less than 17 percent of the students test proficient in reading" and there is absolutely no excuse for this.
it doesn't take a computer or ANY technology at all for that matter to teach reading!
simple newspapers will do the job and give a good range of vocabulary at the same time
there are only two possibilities at play here, they simply do not want to and will not learn(in which case the teachers cannot make them learn), or the teachers should all be fired
The teacher cannot undo in 6 hours five days a week what is done to/around the child the rest of the time.
(Insert Here) Studies Programs in the Sociology departments need warm bodies because apparently very little of their published “research” is ever cited. Without warm bodies no one would ever know they existed. Without those warm bodies writing yet more published articles that no one will ever read in turn teaching even more warm bodies in turn how do the same how will anyone ever know someone knows they knew they existed?
It all comes down to incitement to uncitement. Exciteing, isn’t it?
... I sense a heart wrenching PSA in this ... is Sally Struthers available?
holy moly. out of curiosity, I looked up Amy Wax’s U Penn faculty profile. This gal is pretty impressive. Yale undergrad, Harvard med school, Columbia law. A former neurologist, she switched to the law early in the med career and had a substantial appellate practice. Says she’s argued 15 cases before the SCOTUS, and was an assistant SG of the US from 88-94 (obviously in both Bush and Clinton administrations).
She has written on lots of sensitive topics, including welfare and same sex marriage.
I don’t know....just looking at her...she looks like she might be a bit, ahem, libertarian. But the point is that she is a serious scientist, a serious lawyer, a serious scholar who has earned the right to speak freely about whatever the hell she wants; least of all should she be harassed for simply speaking the truth (noting, as Williams does, that they don’t care to refute her facts, but just to harass her).
This woman is obviously not a racist. She’s a serious academic. She doesn’t deserve to be shouted down by political correctness gone completely radical.
Here’s an excellent op ed that Wax recently wrote. I’m afraid with stuff like this, she’s going to be run out of U Penn on a rail:
you don’t need an education to have a career in welfare queendom or street drug dealing. period.dot
Eliminate welfare, legalize and tax the hell out of mj. Truancy rates and poor performance instantly plummets.
Not only is truth not a defense, it’s the corpus of the offense.
Seriously, Dude? You may need to change your FR name. Making declarations about people based purely on your interpretations of their appearance is the stuff of the Left. You're better than that.
Yes. She is more concerned about facts than pushing an agenda. That is a sign of a true academic.
I always thought it was more logical and fairer to improve black education from the ground up at the elementary level than throw people in over their heads at a higher level.
They will never say it's because the schools blacks tend to come from are industrial-strength craptacular and graduate ill-prepared students AND because modern black culture, as a whole, does not value education like others do.
Like it or not, they don't. Their schools are lousy and their culture is destructive to academic aspirations i.e. "acting white."
Everyone knows it, but we're living in an emperor has no clothes society these days.
Watch her interview on C-Span. It’s from a couple of weeks ago. She talks about the career switch and what’s happened to her in the halls of Penn.
Amazing woman.
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