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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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To: Citizen Zed

Finally rest? It’ll take a lifetime to clean up the mess.


21 posted on 03/18/2015 2:10:46 AM PDT by maddog55 (America Rising a new Civil War II needs to happen.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Fake statistic. These students STILL can read or write any better than before. The “diploma” is just more social promotion.


22 posted on 03/18/2015 2:18:44 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: Citizen Zed

I hate that site. It’s nothing but black, black, black all the time. Why don’t they just slap a “white privilege” penalty on the numbers for whites and be done with it. There, all equal now.


23 posted on 03/18/2015 2:29:28 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Citizen Zed

And when you don’t stop and frisk, the arrest rate goes down, to. Now that’s progress. Liberal style.


24 posted on 03/18/2015 2:30:30 AM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: Citizen Zed

Closing Arguments Begin in Atlanta Test Cheating Trial

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/03/16/us/ap-us-atlanta-schools-cheating.html?_r=0


25 posted on 03/18/2015 2:31:14 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: caww
I don't disbelieve the statistc. There's probably some finagling locally about dropout rates and students who disappear from records without dropping out (that's as old as the statistics).

What's happened is that a lot less attention is spent on those average students, the ones who get Bs and Cs with no extra services. They get by. What you get might be that those students are less qualified for work or college, while more students meet minimum requirements. At the same time, the very top-tier (top 10% or so) is excellently qualified, perhaps with higher standards than in the past..

Is equalization and inclusion while bringing down the average good or bad? It's an open debate.

26 posted on 03/18/2015 2:31:31 AM PDT by grania
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To: Lazamataz; TheUsualSuspects
Peter Cook from his monologue titled:
Experiences Down the Mine

"So I become a miner instead.
They're not very rigorous the mining exams.
They only ask you one question. They ask:
"Who are you?"
I got 75% on that one."

27 posted on 03/18/2015 2:33:18 AM PDT by shibumi ("Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way")
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To: Citizen Zed
... of Black children born to parents in the middle income group, only 14 percent will move up into higher income brackets as adults, while 37 percent will remain in the middle class and an almost unbelievable 69 percent will move downward and be poorer than their parents.

That's because their parents got jobs, got married and had children, while the present generation has children, never gets married, and won't hold a job that interferes with the party life.

If it makes the authors feel any better, this is happening to the white population, too. Solidly middle-class people in their 60s and 70s have grandchildren or great-grandchildren born outside marriage, which means those children and their parents are headed down the socioeconomic ladder.

28 posted on 03/18/2015 2:33:23 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Google "tiny kitten pictures," and put down the gun.)
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To: Kirkwood

Yep, public school is a baby sitting service so the parents can sit at home and smoke pot and drink beer until the little minds filled with mush get home.

Hobbies, like work, are frowned upon.


29 posted on 03/18/2015 3:41:56 AM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: Kirkwood

My first thought is that a large portion of the increased number of graduations is because of the way that teachers are instructed to keep grades at or just above failing for the students. My two daughters have both been teaching 8th graders in two separate districts and were both told to change grades from failing to minimally passing - by the administrators of the schools.


30 posted on 03/18/2015 3:47:04 AM PDT by CarolinaPeach
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To: Citizen Zed

Closing arguments started Monday in the trial of a dozen former Atlanta Public Schools educators accused of participating in a test cheating conspiracy that drew nationwide attention.

This is how they do it!


31 posted on 03/18/2015 3:54:26 AM PDT by ImNotLying ("Islam is to humans as rabies is to dogs")
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To: Citizen Zed

Ah, but can Johnny actually read?


32 posted on 03/18/2015 4:18:26 AM PDT by MortMan (All those in favor of gun control raise both hands!)
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To: Citizen Zed

Is there any connection to the Atlanta cheating scandal?


33 posted on 03/18/2015 4:28:59 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
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To: Citizen Zed
lower the standards and everyone is educated love it a country of morons.
34 posted on 03/18/2015 4:52:31 AM PDT by bikerman (2015 new motto--- slugs for thugs.)
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To: caww
It’s going to take more than the years they’re saying for that gap to close

And it's going to take more than years period.

35 posted on 03/18/2015 4:59:47 AM PDT by Salvey
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To: MortMan

Pretty funny-

Reminds me of:

“Jun 28, 2013 - OOPS! Rachel Jeantel yesterday testifies she can’t read a cursive letter she supposedly wrote. It’s signed with her printed nickname. OOPS!””

AND this was the states STAR witness-
I am sure she is working for SEIU now
LOL


36 posted on 03/18/2015 5:00:36 AM PDT by mj1234
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To: Citizen Zed

Can’t have that happening - they may begin to think and act like regular citizens. Let’s see what the Left does to “correct” this anomaly.


37 posted on 03/18/2015 5:53:45 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Politicalkiddo

Exactly. I have a cousin whose daughter graduated from high school a couple of years ago. She kept telling me.. you need to read my book.. that she was writing on some notepad like website. So I did. It was painful. She could neither write nor spell. She couldn’t even have a continuing thought. It was pitiful. They had just given this gal a diploma.


38 posted on 03/18/2015 6:31:27 AM PDT by sheana
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To: Citizen Zed

Why, all we need now is another 40+yrs, a few more $Trillion, and the field will be level....Right?


39 posted on 03/18/2015 8:54:19 AM PDT by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: Citizen Zed

Uh huh.

Tell me another one daddy! Oooppps, I probably shouldn’t say daddy.


40 posted on 03/18/2015 8:56:47 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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