Achievement Gap

Mark Bauerlein on Chace’s ‘Affirmative Action’ Defense

May 27, 2011

Former professor and author William Chace wrote an article for The American Scholar defending “affirmative action” and calling on elite schools to increase their use of racial preferences. He noted that in the public arena, voters are barring their states from discriminating against or granting preferences to individuals or groups on the basis of race [...]

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Wake Co Update: Different Proposals, Same Goal

May 26, 2011

Remember Wake County? Can’t forget about Wake County. The school board scrapped the student assignment plan that sent children to schools outside their neighborhoods for “diversity.” The local NAACP cried foul and called the move a return to Jim Crow. According to Education Week, the school system has proposed two alternatives. Rather than simply allowing [...]

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Diversity: Asians Not Included

April 27, 2011

Most of the time, “diversity” is code for black and Hispanic, in that order. Rarely are people of east Asian descent included. As they tend to perform better than whites academically, they are the non-preferred (by the government) minority. The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) conducted several studies that revealed schools, elite or otherwise, hold [...]

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Dissenting Voices from the Wilderness

April 19, 2011

Government-sanctioned and –mandated “affirmative action” is deep-rooted, and eradicating it entirely, from every crevice and corner, won’t be easy. The policy’s justifications include rectifying past discrimination, counteracting “institutional racism,” and spreading diversity-love. All the arguments for racial preferences I’ve ever heard or read were inconsistent. For example, if you believe in the concept of equal [...]

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UNC Files Memo in Wake County Reassignment Case

April 13, 2011

What is it about majority-black schools that terrifies “civil rights” groups like the NAACP? Food for thought… To recap the “controversy” in Wake County, North Carolina, the school board approved a plan to stop busing children to schools outside their neighborhoods for “diversity” and to allow parents to send them to schools closer to home. [...]

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Walter Williams on Dayton’s Lowered Standards

April 4, 2011

Last month I blogged about the U.S. Department of Justice ordering the city of Dayton, Ohio, to lower testing standards in the police department because not enough blacks scored high enough on the exam to qualify for employment. Conservative columnist Walter Williams commented on what I consider one of the many embarrassing policies minorities allow [...]

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Affirmative Action ‘Defense’

March 31, 2011

In January, I blogged about an “affirmative action” defense article that appeared at The American Scholar. William Chace, an author and former professor, argued that since voters are barring their local governments from discriminating against or granting preferences to individuals or groups on the basis of race in employment, contracting, and education, it’s up to [...]

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Standardized Test Scandal in DC?

March 29, 2011

Whenever a school, any school, boasts “dramatically” improved standardized test scores, skepticism might be indicated. USA Today typically isn’t known as an investigative news source, but the outlet dug into a claim that Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus in the nation’s capital went from 10 percent “proficient” or “advanced” math scores on tests required by [...]

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WSJ Covers Top Ten Percent Gaming Study

March 15, 2011

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal posted a blog item about a study that shows students have found ways to game the Texas Top Ten Percent plan. The study was released a couple of months ago, and I blogged about it here. An excerpt: “Regardless of a high school’s academic ranking, a Texas high school student [...]

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Inequitable in Huntsville

March 1, 2011

When I read articles like this one, I don’t know whether to roll my eyes in here-we-go-again frustration or laugh at the unintended humor over the alarmist sentiment of it all. Sometimes, I do both. In the United States, people still have a right to live where they wish, and it’s usually a place they [...]