PoliticalChic
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1.So many old saying have survived because they are true. Thomas Paine ... What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly
And this one, not that old: “Earned success is the secret to meaningful happiness. The government can improve your net worth with a check, but it cannot improve your self-worth.”
Jonah Goldberg
2. And the subject of a WSJ article:
“Scrapping the SAT Won’t Help Black and Latino Students
Low-income minorities have more to lose than gain from the woke war on standardized testing.
Opinion | Scrapping the SAT Won’t Help Black and Latino Students
In the overwhelming desire for power, attained via the votes of these two minority blocks, Democrats/Liberals constantly lie about racial bias in America. Not only is it non-existent, or, at most, a rounding error, but the real ‘bias’ is always in FAVOR of minority candidates and applicants.
African-American students with scores of 1100 had the same chance of getting into an elite school as white students who had a score of 1410…but Asian-Americans needed a 1550 SATscore.
Is there a bias against college applications from Asian students
3. “It’s true that blacks and Hispanics on average score below whites and Asians on the SAT, but to claim the test is discriminatory is to ignore a host of other factors that are far more likely culprits. We know that study habits, as well as time spent reading books versus watching television, vary significantly among different racial and ethnic groups. We also know that black and Hispanic youths are far more likely to attend chronically failing elementary and secondary schools. Might any of this offer a more plausible explanation for the racial and ethnic disparities in SAT scores?
Even before entering school, some kids are already far ahead of others through no fault of their own. A landmark study by Betty Hart and Todd Risley of the University of Kansas found that the children of professional parents hear about 2,100 words an hour on average, which is nearly double the number of words heard by the children of working-class parents and more than three times the number heard by children of families on welfare. By the time a dentist’s child enters kindergarten, she’s heard an estimated 30 million more words than a poor child has.
Given these vast differences in upbringings, habits, attitudes and priorities across various groups, why would we expect to see anything approaching racial or ethnic parity in SAT scores? “ WSJ, Op. Cit.
What benefit is there to minority students who will not be able to perform up to the level they’ve been awarded…..???
And this one, not that old: “Earned success is the secret to meaningful happiness. The government can improve your net worth with a check, but it cannot improve your self-worth.”
Jonah Goldberg
2. And the subject of a WSJ article:
“Scrapping the SAT Won’t Help Black and Latino Students
Low-income minorities have more to lose than gain from the woke war on standardized testing.
Opinion | Scrapping the SAT Won’t Help Black and Latino Students
In the overwhelming desire for power, attained via the votes of these two minority blocks, Democrats/Liberals constantly lie about racial bias in America. Not only is it non-existent, or, at most, a rounding error, but the real ‘bias’ is always in FAVOR of minority candidates and applicants.
African-American students with scores of 1100 had the same chance of getting into an elite school as white students who had a score of 1410…but Asian-Americans needed a 1550 SATscore.
Is there a bias against college applications from Asian students
3. “It’s true that blacks and Hispanics on average score below whites and Asians on the SAT, but to claim the test is discriminatory is to ignore a host of other factors that are far more likely culprits. We know that study habits, as well as time spent reading books versus watching television, vary significantly among different racial and ethnic groups. We also know that black and Hispanic youths are far more likely to attend chronically failing elementary and secondary schools. Might any of this offer a more plausible explanation for the racial and ethnic disparities in SAT scores?
Even before entering school, some kids are already far ahead of others through no fault of their own. A landmark study by Betty Hart and Todd Risley of the University of Kansas found that the children of professional parents hear about 2,100 words an hour on average, which is nearly double the number of words heard by the children of working-class parents and more than three times the number heard by children of families on welfare. By the time a dentist’s child enters kindergarten, she’s heard an estimated 30 million more words than a poor child has.
Given these vast differences in upbringings, habits, attitudes and priorities across various groups, why would we expect to see anything approaching racial or ethnic parity in SAT scores? “ WSJ, Op. Cit.
What benefit is there to minority students who will not be able to perform up to the level they’ve been awarded…..???