{"id":123476,"date":"2018-09-02T16:17:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T00:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=123476"},"modified":"2018-09-03T07:46:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T15:46:56","slug":"phds-for-blacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=123476","title":{"rendered":"Black PhDs In Hard Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heather Mac Donald writes<\/a>: “Blacks made up 4.7% of all doctorate recipients nationwide in 2006, 4.9% in 2010, and 5.2% in 2016, according to the National Science Foundation. But black PhDs have historically been concentrated in education; in the sciences, which make up a large proportion of the UCLA faculty, less so. In 2016, for example, 1% of all PhDs in computer science went to blacks, or 17 out of 1,659 doctorates, according to the Computing Research Assn. Many fields \u2014 nuclear physics, geophysics and seismology and neuropsychology, for instance \u2014 had no black PhDs at all.”<\/p>\n

“The ultimate solution to any absence of proportional representation in higher education is to close the academic skills gap. In 2015, only 14% of black eighth graders in California and 13% of Latino eighth graders scored as proficient or above on the National Assessment of Educational Progress math test, compared with 57% of Asians and 43% of whites. In reading, 16% of black eighth graders and 18% of Latino eighth graders were proficient or above, compared with 50% of Asians and 44% of whites. Such gaps have been constant over many decades.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heather Mac Donald writes: “Blacks made up 4.7% of all doctorate recipients nationwide in 2006, 4.9% in 2010, and 5.2% in 2016, according to the National Science Foundation. But black PhDs have historically been concentrated in education; in the sciences, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,29733,9961],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks","category-diversity","category-ucla"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t