yeah, real stooopid...
Posted on 09/17/2013 6:53:55 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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71 percent of the 2,500 black students in APS who took the Mathematics II exam in 2011, failed and only 1 percent, 25 students, passed with distinction (Pass Plus). By contrast, only 21 percent of white students failed with 79 percent passing and 23 percent of those passing with distinction.
In Fulton County, where 62 percent of black students failed the Mathematics II exam, 90 percent of the white students passed, 32 percent with distinction. The failure rates and achievement gaps throughout most of the school districts in the metro-Atlanta area are astonishing.
The consequence of this reality is that black students are excluded from much of the STEM conversation and are nearly entirely excluded from the higher level STEM education discourse. For the incoming 2013 freshman class of first time full time freshmen at Georgia Tech, for example, there were only 61 applicants from the entire Atlanta Public School system, nearly 2,500 seniors. Of those 61 applicants, 26 were admitted and 15 have enrolled.
Despite APS being 79 percent black students, only 28 percent, or 17 applicants, of the total applicants from APS were black. Of those 17 applicants, only 1 black freshman was admitted.
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Another Ping. Worth reading the whole article.
It’s the IQ thing. Known for a long, long time, but we’re not supposed to talk about it.
Studying science ain’t keepin’ it real.
Selling meth.
Math? Science? I did not expect them to know that since they can’t read “cursive writing”.
No that did not need a /sarc tag
Dey out makin rap yo. Voop, voop muggafluga, Voop, voop muggafluga
Dat where da money at yo.
BIG part of it. Actin' white and all.
I recall some things Thomas Jefferson wrote concerning the intelligence of Blacks. I do not recall everything exactly except it agreed completely with what modern IQ tests show.
I do recall that Math and abstract reasoning were their weak points but he considered them close to equal to whites in verbal skills.
Conversation? Discourse? What planet are they from?
yeah, real stooopid...
No, they are not excluded, they are not well enough educated or interested in the STEM programs.
Same place women are
Not there
And so effing what pray tell
According to the newspaper, the tests are too hard.
Black students, on average, perform worse academically and have lower IQs. Math and science are fields that require an absolute correct answer via a formula. You cannot BS through those fields like you can many of the social sciences or African-American studies.
The Bell Curve
1994
Richard J Herrnstein and Charles Murray
American "black" culture is a failure, academically speaking. I don't think its as genetic as many here might think, I knew too many minorities in college, usually from a non-American black upbringing, who were in engineering and science, and did as well as I did. Its mostly a cultural debacle we have witnessed.
Math? That be old skool! We gots calcumlaters for dat.
There may be several variables, but the teachers unions and the liberal local and state gummints certainly did not help.
IQ,,,,,
had a post here many weeks ago about that,
Any help ??
Bueller,
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