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Sinking theories
Only 12 percent of black fourth-grade boys are proficient in reading, compared with 38 percent of white boys, and only 12 percent of black eighth-grade boys are proficient in math, compared with 44 percent of white boys.Poverty alone does not seem to explain the differences: poor white boys do just as well as African-American boys who do not live in poverty, measured by whether they qualify for subsidized school lunches. Is there any subject on which our "cognitive" elites hold a view that matches observable reality? Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-11-10 |
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