http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2012/10/12/echoing-virginia-florida-_n_1959151.html
Despite the state officials’ clarifications that those goals are all statistical and system-wide, it’s obvious that a higher statistical goal is going to translate to higher pressure on individual students. Schools and teachers will tend to push Asian kids harder because they have more statistical “quota” to deliver. That will be especially true when combined with recent push to take test scores into consideration when measuring teacher performance (which I actually support by the way).
I find it ironic that people keep citing the statistical differences between races, while most if not all of them would agree that the differences couldn’t have been caused genetically. In other words, they know that there is only correlation but no causality between intellectual performance and race. Yet they still choose to divide students into racial groups and set different goals for them. It’s mental sloppiness at its worst. They would have done better, both morally and logically, had they chosen to create the divisions along, say, different income levels.
So in 50 years, this country has managed to go from “separate but equal” to “integrated but unequal?” Better? I think not.
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