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Black students, even adjusting for poverty, routinely score lower on average than white students nationally [1, 2]. "Playing the race card" isn't "disgusting,"
by tomjakubowski 14y ago
Black students, even adjusting for poverty, routinely score lower on average than white students nationally [1, 2]. "Playing the race card" isn't "disgusting," it's a legitimate criticism of American schools' failure to educate students on equal ground regardless of race.
[1]: http://www.good.is/post/new-report-puts-the-black-male-achievement-crisis-in-the-spotlight/ http://www.good.is/post/new-report-puts-the-black-male-achie...
[2]: http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/pubs/studies/2009455.asp http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/pubs/studies/2009455.as...
- geetee 14y agoBecause teaching non-whites differently will go over swimmingly. Perhaps we should split classes by skin color? Oh wait...
- clarky07 14y agoI be willing to bet this is far more about absent fathers and single mothers working to much to be around than it is about the teachers discriminating with their dispensing of knowledge. Yes this is a fact, but that doesn't mean that the cause is what you are suggesting.
- boboblong 14y ago"Black students, even adjusting for poverty, routinely score lower on average than white students nationally." This is because black students, on average, are less intelligent than white students. Mystery solved.