(August 20, 2016 at 10:47 pm)Brakeman Wrote:Why don't you tell us what you think the data infers?(August 19, 2016 at 2:54 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Schools here are funded by property taxes raised in the district they serve. Schools in poverty-stricken areas have less money to work with, because real estate values are lower in their districts compared to wealthier neighborhoods. What that means is that poor folk here get less of precisely the resource they need most to break the cycle of poverty.
And because minorities in America typically make less than whites, that means they live in disproportionately poorer neighborhoods, meaning they receive comparatively poorer educations, meaning they don't have as much access to higher paying jobs, meaning that they live in ...
So in schools that have mixed student populations the Black, White, Asian, and Hispanic students perform statistically the same since they go to the same schools and get the same quantity of funding?
That's not actually observed..
Here's a Local community college graduation rate. Chosen because the vast majority of the students will have come from the same school sytems with roughly the same funding levels.
MTC Graduation Rate: 10%
The Midlands Technical College graduation rate for first-time freshmen who entered the college in a full-time, degree-seeking status in Fall 2010 and graduated within 150 percent of program time was 10 percent. Graduation data rate by gender and race/ethnicity is provided below:
Gender:
Male 9%
Female 10%
Race/Ethnicity:
American Indian or Alaska Native 0%;
Asian 17%;
Black or African American 2%;
Hispanic/Latina 19%;
White 12%;
Two or More Races 0%;
Race/Ethnicity Unknown 19%
http://www.midlandstech.edu/about/consum...-placement
What does this data infer?
While your at it, tell us your stance on the whole subject in general.
Or are you as chicken shit as the others? Or maybe just scared to make a fool out of yourself like Robert E.