We Must Face Persistent Racial Gaps in Academic Performance says Stuart Taylor Jr. Previously he has contributed to Real Clear with articles about how Kavanaugh's accusers are lying. Before that, the unfairness of sexual assault tribunals in colleges.
Now he's here confront us all about racial gaps. And by racial gaps, he means blacks performing worse than whites. Of course he doesn't address how Asians obviously have a superior culture by his own arbitrary metrics. Also, southern white baptists are basically retarded by this logic.
But the important part is that whites are generally better in school than blacks.
Remember when we were bitching about how useless college is? That doesn't matter right now -- all the sudden who gets into college is really important.
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Racial academic gaps are not shrinking despite decades of racial preferences
Still more disheartening than the size of the racial gaps is the ample evidence that they have not gotten appreciably smaller in some three decades.
“Even after decades of affirmative action, black and Hispanic students are more underrepresented at the nation’s top colleges and universities than they were 35 years ago, according to a 2017 New York Times analysis. The share of black freshmen at elite schools is virtually unchanged since 1980. Black students are just 6 percent of freshmen but 15 percent of college-age Americans.”
(The paper said that blacks and Hispanics have gained more ground at less selective colleges and universities.)
Strikingly, the Times did not explicitly acknowledge or quantify the vast racial gaps in academic performance, such as the fact that the average black 12th-grader is academically at the same level as the average white eighth-grader. And not a word about the massive evidence that the home environments of so many African-American kids are not conducive to education.
Nor did the Times attempt to explain, other than blaming unequal K-12 schools, how decades of increased public school spending and of racial preferences in college admissions could have failed so utterly to bring even relatively prosperous black students -- or their children – much closer to academic parity with whites and Asian-Americans by age 18.
By all available measures, despite the emergence of a black middle class, the most recent data suggest that the racial academic performance gaps among 18-year-olds applying to college are as large on average as they were about three decades ago. The black-white test score gap among high school seniors in contemporary America is comparable to the gap between 13- and 17-year-olds.
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I have a radical notion for you all to consider:
Maybe obsessive parent helicoptering is more common with whites and asians than blacks and latinos. And maybe this kind of anxiety over how well adjusted your kid is creates better grades (academic performance).
Maybe whites and asians -- even among the middle class -- have gotten better at these stupid standardized tests -- rather than blacks and latinos being just as bad as they were 50 years ago....speaking of tests...here's something I noticed about the tests used:
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The most authoritative metrics are the relative scores of racial groups on the reading and math tests administered by the National Assessment of Educational Progress to the nation’s fourth-graders, eighth-graders, and (especially) high school seniors every two years since the early 1970s.
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Why not measure 3rd graders like Germany does? You know -- because its a way more accurate predictor of natural academic
ability --- OHHH shit thats right.
Because then the upper middle class whites and asians couldn't game the system. See the gap between kids starts around 4th grade. That's when your parent attitude about school starts determining how seriously you take it as a kid, and more importantly perhaps, the amount of time you spend on it.
Basically beyond 3rd grade -- what you measuring mostly is conditioning gaps. It's like telling 25% of the kids to run every day -- and the rest to take a nap. After a year -- whata know. All the best running parents have the best running kids -- must be genetic right?
12-04-2018, 12:10 AM
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