Some groups of people are dumber than others.
When you value thuggish feralism over education, the results do not surprise.
Byeongdon Oh has not figred it out. THe BLack and Latino students realize ahead of their "white privilege" counterparts that higher educatcion is no longer education, au conraire it is indoctrination. So afirmatove action does not worl when education becomes idoctrination. The whites are continuing to be indoctrinated, the blacks and latinos are not. IN this case, failing or refusing to atend "higher indoctrination" institutions that used to be institutions of higher learning and education, is a SMART MOVE.Why waste the money and effort? Conc.usion: Blacks and Latinos are smarter than the white privioeged....they know a grift when they see one.
It’s a reflection in the disparities in among cultures. Blacks and Latinos generally don’t value the work that is required to get into and earn a degree from a top 4-year college. You will find they prefer the fly-by-night online for-profit institutions, earning non-science or engineering degrees. For the younger population at large, getting a university degree is increasingly a box-checking exercise, but it is even more so for minorities, to they seek the cheapest path of least resistance.
You mean that some higher ed institutions still insist that 2+2=4?
The gap exists because Democrats purposefully underfund black education in the inner cities, so they don’t build the foundation to better themselves.
“Been trying to fix the gap. . .”
They aren’t really trying. The quality of primary and secondary education in public schools has declined steadily over the past 70 years as social activism and indoctrination has replaced teaching fundamental reading, writing and math skills. Standards of performance have been eliminated and functionally illiterate children of all races are being given high school diplomas for zero achievement. Children of any race graduating from the vast majority of failed public schools have no chance of going to a prestige university, much less succeeding at one.
Many studies show that without strong parenting chances for success in school and life are diminished. Until the culture in communities of color values education and parents start pushing children to excel there will be no progress in erasing the gap. It is the victim mentality in these communities that destroys achievement.
The emphasis on elite education as a measure of success has to stop. As a wise man once told me in my younger years, “A second class seat on the train of life will take you to the same destination as the first class seat. However you will go nowhere if you don’t get on the train.”
The elitist leftist academics controlling education see the disparity in the number of blacks going to prestige colleges as being due to racism or white privilege. The real reason is for the gap is children are not being taught how to get on the train of life by their parents and the liberal educators as young children. An 18 year old illiterate male gang banger waving a college diploma is not going to apply for admission to Harvard, much less be admitted. The same for an 18 year old illiterate female unwed high school grad with a worthless high school diploma, two children from different absentee fathers and a third on the way.
The experts are not only incompetent. Their degrees from self proclaimed prestige universities are simply fancy window dressing to hide their complete ignorance.
People being where their performance dictates they be isnt inequality.
Why go to school when you can sell dope and steal your way to a good living? Well, that is until it abruptly comes to a dead end.
When you don't push students to work harder and strive for better, you get poorer performance.
Everyone knows this...except the Democrats.
“you cannot indoctrinate educated people unless the indoctrination is part of the education” L.Star
Why is it “concerning”? Is th author accusing the universities of anti-black racism? Then back up that claim with evidence. Is it because of the number of blacks who are born to one parent homes and therefore have difficult childhoods? If so, what can be done?
It seems like everything the ‘progressives’ control is ultimately corrupt. Maybe it’s because when you abandon meritocracy all that’s left is whimsy and subjectivity.
Well, teach certain groups of people to value an education.
Inequality can not be cured.
I wonder if this study is done by woke idiots.
Certain people work to obtain an education. Some demographics think a degree is a participation trophy.
We who employ such people know the difference.
It’s the “Ambition Gap”.