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Category Archives: Education
The Long Crusade: Profiles in Education Reform, 1967–2014
Steve Sailer writes: My old friend Raymond Wolters, a professor of history at the U. of Delaware for 50 years, has come back from five months in the hospital waiting for his lung transplant to write the first narrative account … Continue reading
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Teacher Assault
Comments: * I know an ex-Philadelphia teacher who was nearly killed in a Philadelphia high school and was left with terrible PTSD. He apparently said something to a student that the student interpreted as “dissin’ him” and the next day … Continue reading
Education Professor: ‘Forced busing’ didn’t fail. Desegregation is the best way to improve our schools.
Comments at Washington Post: * Can we start with your kids, professor? * Shorter Version: Society wasn’t failed by liberal policies, liberal policies were failed by an unworthy society! * No sane mayor or city council, no matter how liberal, … Continue reading
LAT: Why Iowa’s graduation rate is so much higher than California’s
Such a mystery. I just can’t figure it out. From LATimes.com: It’s hard to know exactly what’s going on with the numbers, Howard said. “We gotta dig deep to figure out what’s at play.” I went to Wikipedia and looked … Continue reading
Readin’, Ritin’, ’Rithmetic — After Waves of Immigration, Millions of Americans Lack Basic Skills
Reihan Salam writes for National Review: How have decades of immigration transformed America? Shedding light on this, the Pew Research Center has released a fascinating new report, which finds that the current foreign-born share of the U.S. population (13.9 percent) … Continue reading
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NPR: In Houston’s Gifted Program, Critics Say Blacks And Latinos Are Overlooked
NPR: Ford found that both Hispanic and black students are underrepresented in gifted programs and that black students are missing out the most. She also found that about half the seats in those programs go to higher-income students, even though … Continue reading
Using Education To Develop Civilization
Robert Weisberg writes: For over a half century government has spent billions to eliminate the race-related academic achievement gap and all to no avail. Paralleling this educational failure has been a similar frustration to reverse the pathologies plaguing the black … Continue reading
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LAT: Achievement gaps widen for California’s black and Latino students
I wonder if IQ has anything to do with this? The average East Asian IQ is 105, white IQ is 100, hispanic American IQ is 90 and African-American IQ is 85. Howard Blume writes: For more than a decade, state … Continue reading
Steve Sailer: NYT Dumbfounded by Higher Suspension Rate of Black Students
Comments to Steve Sailer: * The idea that they’re not devoting enough time to raising awareness about racism at a school of education is gut-bustingly funny. My ex-wife described having to listen to hours and hours of lectures about racism, … Continue reading
The Long Crusade: Profiles in Education Reform, 1967-2014 by Raymond Wolters
I interview historian Raymond Wolters Tuesday evening. He is the author of The Burden of Brown: Thirty Years of School Desegregation (1984), Du Bois and His Rivals (2005), The New Negro on Campus: Black College Rebellions of the 1920s (1975), … Continue reading