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Black Students Showing Highest High School Graduation Rate Ever, Closing Gap With White Students
Atlanta Black Star ^ | 3-17-2015 | Nick Chiles

Posted on 03/17/2015 11:29:10 PM PDT by Citizen Zed

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Six years down and two more to go for Obama to fix everything. Then he can finally rest.
1 posted on 03/17/2015 11:29:10 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed

Anybody can see that this means nothing. “Nothing, nothing, nothing at all” in the words of the poet. ( Try googling that ! )


2 posted on 03/17/2015 11:33:28 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: Citizen Zed

I wonder how much number tweeking this took. Worse, I think white students are generally dumber than ever, and so are the teachers. I went to vote last year and my wife and I casually observed spelling mistakes on several posters throughout the school/polling place.

The posters were made by the teachers, not the students!


3 posted on 03/17/2015 11:34:22 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: Citizen Zed

I assume the standards have been lowered - again.


4 posted on 03/17/2015 11:35:35 PM PDT by zeestephen
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I’m not so sure that’s believable...but then the standards have dropped so low now...and the Common Core teaching on a roll....who can tell.

It’s going to take more than the years they’re saying for that gap to close....meanwhile the blacks have the Hispanic and Latino’s closing in as well.


5 posted on 03/17/2015 11:37:50 PM PDT by caww
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To: Citizen Zed
Lies.
Damn Lies.
Statistics.
6 posted on 03/17/2015 11:38:57 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: The Antiyuppie

This is in a Georgia newspaper ,, they’re the poster child for cheating in school (by the teachers).


7 posted on 03/17/2015 11:40:00 PM PDT by Neidermeyer ("Our courts should not be collection agencies for crooks." — John Waihee, Governor of Hawaii, 1986-)
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To: Citizen Zed

Wait, What?

That can’t be right.

I thought they absolutely required Affirmative Action to get ahead?

So, this story says they’re just as smart as the next guy?

Always thought so and it took em long enough to admit:
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“You can get ahead in life based on merit”...


8 posted on 03/17/2015 11:41:29 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Citizen Zed

Appears there was a general increase of about 4% in the graduation rate across all racial groups. I wonder what people who look at this stuff realistically attribute this to.


9 posted on 03/17/2015 11:41:38 PM PDT by Yardstick
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Did they learn anything?


10 posted on 03/17/2015 11:49:17 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Diplomas mean nothing anymore.


11 posted on 03/17/2015 11:50:30 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo (You know it's bad when you actually wish that someone would replace your senators with horses.)
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To: Neidermeyer

Read H.G.Wells
The Time Machine


12 posted on 03/17/2015 11:51:47 PM PDT by glyptol
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To: Yardstick

Can’t be teaching or education from what I’ve seen. It is just about keeping the kids in the school and pushing them up a notch each year until they are out.


13 posted on 03/17/2015 11:54:59 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Citizen Zed

If true, then good news. I’ve always thought it was a national security risk for an entire class of people to be so extremely ignorant, and actually improving basic education for the black underclass is a more substantial solution than affirmative action, in my view. On the other hand, I think all of society is getting dumber and the educational system weaker across the board, so maybe its just standards are being lowered and/or whites are getting dumber.


14 posted on 03/18/2015 12:00:48 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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Funny how these liberals never mention Asians in these articles regarding minority test scores and education. Maybe because it will screw up the narrative that America is an “evil and racist” nation where people of color have no chance to succeed.


15 posted on 03/18/2015 12:06:50 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: zeestephen

Bingo, winner here.

They either lower the standards or we end up with 6th graders that have to shave every morning.


16 posted on 03/18/2015 12:15:35 AM PDT by biff (Et Tu Boeh-ner)
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To: Kirkwood

That’s what I’m suspecting. I’m wary of this of this figure sort of like the employment numbers.


17 posted on 03/18/2015 12:29:06 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Citizen Zed

If they just hand out diplomas to the blacks, then there will be a 100% graduation rate. The liberals than then declare “mission accomplished!”


18 posted on 03/18/2015 1:02:04 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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To: Citizen Zed

Well cool! Now everything is even. We can do away with quotas and ‘affirmative action’.


19 posted on 03/18/2015 1:53:08 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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To: Citizen Zed

This must mean affirmative action will be eliminated, right?


20 posted on 03/18/2015 2:00:08 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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