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A Progressive Assault on Selective High Schools. Instead of fixing public education, the left tries to end testing at schools it deems inequitable.
Wall Street Journal ^ | November 25, 2020 | Chester Finn

Posted on 11/27/2020 5:24:27 AM PST by karpov

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring has fired the latest salvo in America’s assault on meritocracy: a 61-page opinion holding that the suburban Loudoun County school system discriminated against black and Hispanic youngsters because its selective-admission high school, the Academies of Loudon, hadn’t admitted enough of them. Never mind that—as Mr. Herring acknowledged—the school’s test-based admissions process is open to all and fairly managed. Because its results have a “disparate impact,” the school system must scrap it.

Nationwide, selective-admission public schools, also known as “exam schools,” are under attack because the demographics of their student populations don’t match those of their communities. Much like elite universities, critics allege, these schools have been admitting far too many whites and Asians and not nearly enough blacks and Latinos.

The ruckus began in New York, where admission to nine of the city’s hundreds of high schools is governed by the eighth-grader’ scores on a specialized admission test. Topping the list are Stuyvesant and Bronx Science, and there’s no denying that they’re full of Asian and white kids, many from low-income and middle-class families. This has raised hackles for decades, but Mayor Bill de Blasio and his schools chancellor have recently pushed to make the admissions process more “equitable.” They want to reserve places for black and Latino children, abolish the entry exam, and instead admit top students from every middle school in the city.

But is every middle school churning out eighth-graders with the requisite skills and knowledge to succeed at Bronx Science? Are all children who make good grades eager, motivated learners ready to make the most of what these high-powered schools have to offer?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: New York
KEYWORDS: arth; bellcurve; bidenvoters; deblasio; education; stuyvesant
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To: lepton

Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Transracial_Adoption_Study

Black children were adopted as babies into upper middle class white families, with parents having above average IQ.

In the US, median black IQ is around 85.

After 18 years of growing up with all possible advantages, going to white middle class schools, the IQ of the black children tested out with a median of 89.

Think about that for a while.


21 posted on 11/27/2020 8:22:24 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: kearnyirish2
The genetic issue is not put to rest by the success of some people from some former BritIsh colonies who perform as well as whites...

See: "Talented Tenth".

22 posted on 11/27/2020 8:36:37 AM PST by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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