gothamschools.org - 5/12/2009
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Now that I have your attention … Today’s New York Times column by David Brooks touts a new study by Roland Fryer and Will Dobbie of the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) Promise Academy charter schools, two celebrated schools in Harlem. Fryer and Dobbie’s finding that the typical eighth-grader was ...
americanthinker.com - 5/6/2009
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As the gullible of the world start to
relax after being told that the swine flu may...
not become a pandemic, the rest of us marvel at the breadth of their naïveté.
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Dissecting Leftism —
... much the same. What differed was the politics. In the USA politics were governed at that time by Anglo-Saxon values of individual liberty; in Mexico there was typical Latin-American Fascism. The consequences of that political difference were huge and omnipresent. So that is why I still write about the vast politial follies that I see about me. ***************** Another pathetic attempt to explain away the black/white gap in academic achievement An excerpt from another skeptic: Today’s New York Times column by David Brooks ...
Another pathetic attempt to explain away the black/white gap in academic achievement
Stop The ACLU —
... Posted on May 12, 2009 An excerpt from another skeptic: Today’s New York Times column by David Brooks touts a new study by Roland Fryer and Will Dobbie of the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) Promise Academy charter schools, two celebrated schools in Harlem. Fryer and Dobbie’s finding that the typical eighth-grader was in the 74th percentile among New York City students in mathematics leads Brooks to state that HCZ Promise Academy eliminated the black-white achievement gap. He’s so dumbstruck by this that he says it twice. Brooks takes this evidence as support for the “no ...
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