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New Book Addresses *DAFNgapz*
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 6:40 pm    Post subject: New Book Addresses *DAFNgapz* Reply with quote

http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2003/10/12/book_explores_racial_gap_in_education/
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It is perhaps the most bedeviling issue in education: African-American
students, even those from middle-class and affluent families, do worse
than whites and Asians on national tests. In their new book, ``No
Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning,'' Abigail and Stephan
Thernstrom write that the typical black senior in high school reads
at an eighth-grade level. The husband-and-wife team dismisses those
who say the races differ in intelligence....
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What do you think would happen to the book if they hadn>t tossed in
that totally unsubstantiated last sentence...?? It>z just useless
CYA PC bullsh#t to avoid trouble. *Nothing* is offered to back it up.
In fact all evidence supportz the conclusion that it>z what
Mother_Nature hath genetically created *Unequal*...
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 7:53 pm    Post subject: Re: New Book Addresses *DAFNgapz* Reply with quote

Once upon a time, our fellow makemyday@worldnet.att.net
rambled on about "New Book Addresses *DAFNgapz*."
Our champion De-Medicalizing in sci.psychology.misc retorts, thusly

[quote]It is perhaps the most bedeviling issue in education: African-American
students, even those from middle-class and affluent families, do worse
than whites and Asians on national tests.
[/quote]
Ha, ... Hah, Ha!

This thread nicely illustrates just how stupid the proponents of
genetic variation in intelligence are.

It has nothing to with intelligence. It has to do with culture,
Morons. You know, that unique human institution?

Blacks live like animals. So what do you expect, Twits!

Just my opinion. But, I am *right* as usual!
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