Date: January 15th, 2018 6:00 PM
Author: Avocado Haunted Graveyard Base
Baltimore has the second most school funding in the country after NYC.
libs refusal to engage with facts about the the world when talking about what dumb shit they want to do in that world really starts to grind ones gears.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-gap-as-perpetual-money-machine/
"The new national database of school-district test scores created by education researchers at Stanford and Harvard reveals that the single widest white-black racial gap in American public school districts is in the city most synonymous with leftism since 1964: Berkeley, California.
How badly do blacks lag whites in Berkeley public schools? Berkeley’s white-black gap is 1.60 standard deviations. In other words, the median black student would score at only the 5th percentile if he were white.
Yet, Berkeley is ferociously antiracist. It was the first to have a Black Studies Department at the high school level. In the 2012 election, Berkeley voted for Obama over Romney 90 to 5. Berkeley Unified school-district administrators obsess over any data showing that black students get punished more than other races.
Still, the racial gap is bigger in Berkeley than anywhere else.
One exacerbating factor might be that Berkeley’s schools have traditionally been run according to progressive education fads insisted upon by white leftists. For example, the Gates Foundation gave a million dollars to Bill Ayers’ brother Rick Ayers, another ’60s radical ex-fugitive, to work his “small learning communities” voodoo upon Berkeley High School, with an unsurprisingly disastrous impact on math test scores.
Frustrated black parents in Berkeley have at times organized protests in favor of “back to basics” education for their children.
Out of 2121 school districts with enough blacks and whites to generate fairly reliable results, the second-worst race disparity is in Chapel Hill-Carrboro, the home of the University of North Carolina. I don’t have the 2012 vote total for just Chapel Hill, but Orange County, N.C., voted for Obama 70 to 28 over Romney.
The third-biggest white-black gap is in Shaker Heights, the famously liberal suburb of Cleveland.
In the late 1990s, Shaker Heights formed a consortium with 14 other wealthy liberal school districts, such as Berkeley, Chapel Hill, Evanston, White Plains, and Amherst, to study why even privileged black students were lagging so far behind. Black parents in Shaker Heights brought in Berkeley anthropologist John Ogbu (1939–2003) to do fieldwork. A hardworking Nigerian, Ogbu discovered that Shaker Heights’ black students goof off instead of doing their homework out of fear of being accused of “acting white”
Fourth worst for racial inequality is liberal Asheville, N.C., the arts and crafts capital of America, which attracts gays and polite white-flight types.
The fifth-most severe race gap is in Evanston, Ill. (home of Northwestern U.), which voted 86.5% for Obama in 2012. Evanston’s chasm is 1.49 standard deviations, putting its average black student at the 7th percentile among its white students.
Evanston whites averaged an impressive 3.9 grade levels higher than the national average across all races, while Evanston’s Hispanics were 0.1 grade levels below the national average and Evanston’s blacks scored 0.6 levels below the national average.
Other liberal college towns with massive white-black gaps include Madison (U. of Wisconsin), Iowa City (U. of Iowa), Charlottesville (U. of Virginia), Austin (U. of Texas), Bernie Sanders’ Burlington (U. of Vermont), Durham (Duke U.), and Ann Arbor (U. of Michigan). Palo Alto, next door to Stanford U., the sponsor of this research project, also has an intense white-black gap, but not enough blacks can afford to live in Palo Alto for it to make my sample-size cutoff for reliability.
Besides college towns, the largest race gaps tend to be found in liberal big cities.
The sixth-worst racial inequality out of 2,121 districts is in the black-ruled District of Columbia, which voted 91 to 7 for Obama. Eighth worst is in black-ruled Atlanta (middle-class blacks prefer Atlanta’s suburbs). Other big cities with extreme white-black gaps include Oakland, Seattle, Minneapolis, and San Francisco."
it's time for libs to pack their shit up on this issue--from the entire supposed academic field of education to the politicians to the average dumb xo quotemo. We are now many GENERATIONS deep into libs extracting, spending and controlling enormous resources on the schools of Baltimore, Shaker Heights, Seattle, Berkeley, etc. Enough. It's over. The jury is in and libs have once again seen their ideas, muddled and paltry as they are, humiliated by their very own sisyphean boulder we call reality.
https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/racial-equity-in-seattle-schools-has-a-long-frustrating-history-and-its-getting-worse/
"Over the past year, Purcell and her staff scoured the archives as part of an initiative to chronicle the history of equity and race relations in Seattle’s public schools. Her search yielded dozens of long-forgotten training manuals, thick binders of task-force reports and other dusty administrative files that show Barbo wasn’t the first — and hardly the last — to wonder when the district would fix its racial gaps.
In her search, Purcell found documents dating back to 1947, when the School Board voted to hire more diverse teachers. That same year, the district hired its first black educator.
Other records highlight the board’s pledge in 1966 to provide educational opportunities to all students and its plans, in 1989 and then again in 2013, to ensure educational excellence and equity for every student."
believe me, it's worse than you imagine if you dig around any of these school districts. libs have made up this fantasy that we refuse to care about the poor black youth of the DC public school system. Absolute nonsense. Libs have been in complete political control of these schools, libs have spent enormous intellectual (sic) energy on these good keeds and together the libs and their urbanbabies have burned through staggering amounts of our money. Over multiple generations, not years.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/916557/posts
"Ogbu agreed. And because he had spent much of his prior career looking at inner-city schools, he was particularly intrigued by the idea of studying a relatively affluent minority group in an academically successful suburban district. This was an opportunity to do a new kind of research. Why were there such stark differences when the socioeconomic playing field was comparably level? How could you explain the achievement discrepancies when they couldn't be dismissed with the traditional explanations of inadequate teachers or disparities in school funding?
Shaker Heights is an upper-middle-class city whose roughly 28,000 residents live on lovely tree-lined streets that run through neighborhoods of stately homes and manicured lawns. Years ago, both blacks and Jews were prohibited from living in the community by restrictive real-estate covenants, but the civil rights era brought a new attitude to the Cleveland suburb, which voluntarily integrated and actively discouraged white flight. Today, blacks make up about one third of the community, and many of them are academics, professionals, and corporate executives.
Ogbu worked from the 1990 census data, which showed that 32.6 percent of the black households and 58 percent of the white households in Shaker had incomes of $50,000 a year or more -- a considerable sum in northeast Ohio. It also was a highly educated community, where 61 percent of the residents graduated from college, about four times the national average. The school district was a model of success, too: Considered one of the best in the nation, it sent 85 percent of its students to college. Today, the district has approximately 5,000 students, of whom 52 percent are African American.
These were the kids of primarily well-educated middle- to upper-class parents, and yet they were not performing on a par with their white classmates in everything from grade-point average to college attendance."
Over the course of these generations of failure, ignorance and mendacity they call governing libs have gone from being guilty merely of dubious reasoning in selecting a hypothesis, to being guilty of refusing to honestly acknowledge their errors and weaknesses when that hypothesis was being tested, to finally becoming guilty of the outright insanity of pretending the past doesn't exist and doubling down on the various delusions that drove them into the iceberg the first dozen times.
It's madness that intelligent libs think the problem is we just don't have teachers who care and there are no books available but if only we had poli sci shitheads to Teach for America and spend Zuckerbergs money we'd finally get the job done.
Madness but no longer--because libs are simply going to have to sit in a corner and shut the fuck up until they have a moment of clarity and decide to be big boys and girls like everyone else whos willing to play by the rules of nature, reason and honesty. Libs may not come out of timeout until they demonstrate a thorough understanding of their crimes and sins as well as a sincere desire to make amends (eg, chucking the entire berkeley education department into the bay for a final ocean swim).
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/opinion/joe-nocera-zuckerbergs-expensive-lesson.html
"The stated goal of the grant, according to Zuckerberg at the time, was to turn Newark’s schools into a “symbol of educational excellence for the whole nation.” Five years later, with the money basically gone, I think it is fair to say that hasn’t happened."
Yeah, I think so too.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3860203&forum_id=2#35162676)