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Category Archives: Education
Why Do Jewish Leaders Keep Ignoring Ultra-Orthodox Education Crisis?
Forward: The New York State Legislature is currently considering two bills, one introduced by Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee in early May , the other by Sen. David Carlucci and Assemblyman Kenneth Zebrowski in January , to strengthen existing legislation requiring nonpublic … Continue reading
Cross-Generational Differences in Educational Outcomes in the Second Great Wave of Immigration
LINK: We make use of a new data source – matched birth records and longitudinal student records in Florida – to study the degree to which student outcomes differ across successive immigrant generations. Specifically, we investigate whether first, second, and … Continue reading
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Remembering Jewish White Flight from L.A. Public Schools
The number of black kids in the schools I went to (prior to college, and even then it was never more than about 5% at UCLA in 1988-1989) was never more than about 2%. One of the marks of Orthodox … Continue reading
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Snitches Get Stitches
Most Hasidim deliberately educate their children so that they only receive a bare minimum of gentile knowledge, that way they will be more likely to stay within the bounds of Judaism. Most Hasidim in America have an understanding of English … Continue reading
Crevasses in the Classroom
Steve Sailer writes: From my new column in Taki’s Magazine about a huge new database of school achievement test scores that answers the old question: Is there any single place in America where blacks (0r Hispanics) outscore whites on cognitive … Continue reading
‘U.S. high school seniors slip in whiteness’
WP: U.S. high school seniors slip in math and show no improvement in reading Comments: * Unless you adjust the scores for race, such results are meaningless. The headline might as well have been “U.S. high school seniors slip in … Continue reading
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Letter From A Los Angeles High School
Link: Dear Hillary, I attended L.A. public schools for about half a school year, back during forced busing in the early 1970s….. Never once, not ONE TIME, did I see a white student harass, intimidate, or humiliate a black student. … Continue reading
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Australian Vs American Schooling
A comment to Camille Paglia: We recently moved to Australia from Seattle. A BIG part of the reason was our four children and the cost to send them all to college. Our first child was a wake-up call, and while … Continue reading
Steve Sailer: ‘Why does the reporter assume that there’s something tragic about young Keith Frazier not getting much of an education?’
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Because liberals view higher education institutions as socializing/indoctrination centers that churn out people with the correct beliefs and people who are properly socialized and who won’t turn to anti-social activities like crime. * The real … Continue reading
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The Tragedy of a Hall of Fame Coach and His Star Recruit
Michael Powell writes in the New York Times: “The tragedy is that the adults in big-time high school and college basketball, despite attempts at reform and despite the presence of many fine student-athletes, exert far more energy trying to churn … Continue reading
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