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2018-03-21 Home Front: Culture Wars

Double Standards Won't Close the Racial Learning Gap

[WSJ via Mannhattan Institute] And racial preferences set up bright students‐who otherwise would be excelling at less-selective schools‐to fail at elite colleges.

Amy Wax, a tenured professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, was recently barred from teaching certain courses there. Her crime? During an interview in September with Glenn Loury, a black economist at Brown University, Ms. Wax remarked on the academic underperformance of black students at Penn Law.

"Here’s a very inconvenient fact, Glenn: I don’t think I’ve ever seen a black student graduate in the top quarter of the class, and rarely, rarely, in the top half," said Ms. Wax. "I can think of one or two students who scored in the top half of my required first-year course."

In his announcement amending her teaching responsibilities, Penn Law School Dean Theodore Ruger accused Ms. Wax of speaking "disparagingly and inaccurately" about the performance of the school’s black students, whom he characterized as "extremely successful." Like Ms. Wax, Mr. Ruger didn’t offer any empirical data to back up his claim; school administrators are known to guard such information as closely as the president guards his tax returns. But it’s an open secret that highly selective schools like Penn lower their standards significantly for black applicants to achieve a predetermined amount of racial diversity on campus. Harvard is currently being sued over this practice, and the plaintiffs have complained that getting demographic data on admissions from the school is like pulling teeth.

Moreover, the evidence is overwhelming that students (of any color) who do not meet the normal standards applied to other students at a school tend to have lower grades and graduation rates. That’s not because they are less intelligent or less capable, but because they have not been prepared for the pace and rigor of an Ivy League institution. Affirmative-action policies in higher education regularly set up bright students‐students who otherwise would be excelling at less-selective schools‐to fail at elite colleges, and the proponents of these policies become indignant when you point out the obvious.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-21 09:40|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 Social Justice Warriors and Virtue Signaling narcissists just know that wishing and saying something just has to make it so! But as Tucker Carlson said last night, a bag of hair isn’t a pony.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2018-03-21 10:31|| 2018-03-21 10:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Sheila Jackson Lee was born Sheila Jackson in Queens, New York. Her parents were immigrants from Jamaica.[1] She graduated from Jamaica High School in Queens. She earned a B.A. in political science from Yale University in 1972, followed by a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1975.[2] She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.[3]

Yet, she's a certifiable AA racialist moron

Posted by Frank G 2018-03-21 10:36|| 2018-03-21 10:36|| Front Page Top

#3 If they can just hang on.... liberal companies will hire them despite the grades and they'll have it made.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-03-21 13:14|| 2018-03-21 13:14|| Front Page Top

#4 These people are dangerous enough without learning; we certainly wouldn't want them actually learning...

Posted by Glenmore 2018-03-21 14:45|| 2018-03-21 14:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Yet, she's a certifiable AA racialist moron

What most people don't realize is that "affirmative action" doesn't just hurts these it discriminates against. It's also promotes the worst members of its putative beneficiary group.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-03-21 14:48|| 2018-03-21 14:48|| Front Page Top

#6 the pace and rigor of an Ivy League institution was used as if it were a good thing. We get our best & brightest idiot intellectuals that way.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-03-21 19:32|| 2018-03-21 19:32|| Front Page Top

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