Posted on 09/23/2013 4:25:56 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Biology is destiny.
Then how do you explain people like Condi Rice (I don’t agree with her on a lot of things but she is very smart) and Dr. Ben Carson? Why can’t all black students excel?
Mustn’t.........speak..........truth.........
The biggest problem with blacks and education is that most blacks think getting an education is being “white”
Their own racism keeps them down
Cotton plantation owners did not import Africans for their IQ.
The problem is easily solved. You make the standardized tests so easy that everyone passes. 100% of Whites. 100% of Blacks. No gap.
And I suspect that this is what they are already doing, slowly but surely.
I would say that expectation is destiny. There are blacks who excel....you only have to look as far as Jeopardy last year, when black men won both the Tournament of Champions and Teenage Jeopardy.
Even though average IQ socres are lower for some ethnic and racial groups than they are for others, that in no way means they should be held to lower standards. A certain percentage of minority students will excel if expected to do so.
Read “The Bell Curve” from cover to cove yourself.
Learn what one full standard deviation is in statistics.
This is not foolproof, as children will live down to any low expectation you set for them.
Do you know what a standard deviation is?
Why can’t all black students excel?
Why can't everyone be a brain surgeon?
Too many black kids think that their career should be as a drug dealer in the hood.
They don’t think past that.
" .. If we don’t do something about these inequities, ...
WHAT do you propose to DO?
You've tried money ... segregation .. integration .. separation .. elevation ..
You've tried to systematically re-engineer society and you've witnessed to congress ad-infinitum.
You've had laws passed, rules made, regulations enforced ...
THERE'S NOTHING LEFT FOR YOU TO ..
DO.
face it shauny ... some animals are more equal than others
Okay, not all black students but a whole lot more. Are blacks really less intelligent than whites? If so, why?
Nobody claims that there’s not a curve for talent, both overall, and within racial groups—which answers both your questions.
“These gaps are traceable back to early-childhood education,” said Shaun Harper, the director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education. “If kids show up in kindergarten not having had high-quality instruction in preschool, they’re already starting behind.”
Complete and utter BS.
A recent government research program showed that early education, in the form of intensive teaching Head Start classes had no significant effect on academic performance of minorities past the second or third grade.
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