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GRIMM STATS:

* Across the state, the downward shift was similar: 31 percent of students passed the exams in reading and math, compared with 55 percent in reading and 65 percent in math last year.

* New York City still outperformed the state’s other large school districts — in Rochester, for example, only 5 percent of students passed in reading and math.

* Striking gaps in achievement between black and Hispanic students and their counterparts persisted. In math, 15 percent of black students and 19 percent of Hispanic students passed the exam, compared with 50 percent of white students and 61 percent of Asian students.

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I recently advertised for an entry level dispatcher position and now have dozens of applications on my desk. I’m amazed at the poor spelling and written communication skills. One lady had a masters in education. Her app was probably the worst.

[Ohioan]

Totally predictable. The idiotic idea that potential, intelligence (of any type), or physical attributes, are evenly distributed; or the even sillier notion that children are interchangeable--and only so much biological putty to be reshaped by their cultural environment--are part of what passes for thinking among those who clothe themselves in the pseudo-intellectual slogans of the Left.

We are all different. No one ever sat in a classroom with his or her equal on either side--unless an identical twin or triplet;--and the sooner we all recognize that collectivist/egalitarianism helps no one but demagogues & scoundrels, the better. (See Compassion Or Compulsion?)

William Flax