San Francisco middle schools will teach Algebra I again this fall — though concerns about implementation continue amid a shortage of qualified teachers.
The 6-1 vote by the San Francisco Unified School District board Tuesday followed a decadelong battle over eighth graders' access to higher-level math courses and a larger debate over academic opportunity and equity in math performance.
Stanford researchers found last year that large racial and ethnic gaps in advanced math enrollment persisted even after the policy change.
No arguments but I think you have to address it. I believe you can find meaningful work that suits your intelligence level but punishing those who are very intelligent makes no sense and just accepting that certain demographics will do better on average in certain areas would be great. Sure you’ll find blacks who are good at math but not in the same number as Whites and Asians and that’s ok. This attempt to “close the gap” is a lesson in futility at the expense of those who are more talented
I think the left is correct that majority of the current gap is environmental.
They think the environment problem is patriarchy and racism and legacy, but really it's integration and trying to teach blacks the way whites/asians are taught.
The simple matter is that blacks need way more discipline in their schools (and life in general) due to their genetic differences (5%-10% with low genetic impulse control, hormone differences, and so on).
The way to address it is boot-camp type schools where they can get a whoopin' like they did before integration. If they're not learning they have to spend more time at school attempting to learn. Anything that gives them the extra motivation they need, whether it's having other students look down on them or missing out on b-ball or getting smacked up.
Put the right incentives in and correct the bad behavior and the gap will be small.
True. Much easier to place the blame at “inequality”. I would love to see this applied to sports. That would be hilarious.
There's not enough morbidly obese People Of Calories in basketball, clearly this is systemic discrimination.
Honestly it would be comedy gold to do a movie that applies DEI nonsense to professional sports