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The Los Angeles Times is running an article describing the challenges faced by Asian Americans as they apply for acceptance to top colleges.
The article describes the impact that their race and ethnicity has on their SAT scores:
Lee's next slide shows three columns of numbers from a Princeton University study that tried to measure how race and ethnicity affect admissions by using SAT scores as a benchmark. It uses the term “bonus” to describe how many extra SAT points an applicant's race is worth.
She points to the first column. African Americans received a “bonus” of 230 points, Lee says.
She points to the second column. “Hispanics received a bonus of 185 points.”
The last column draws gasps. Asian Americans, Lee says, are penalized by 50 points — in other words, they had to do that much better to win admission.
“Do Asians need higher test scores? Is it harder for Asians to get into college? The answer is yes,” Lee says.
A core tenet of the American philosophy, even from before the days of the Founding Fathers, is that through hard work and excellence one should be able to obtain success in life. But is this ideal even possible when certain underachieving groups are given artificial advantages, while those with the most merit are artificially held back?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2015, @01:32PM
...Understand that the purpose of modern American “education” is not to educate students. It is primarily to provide cushy, subsidized sinecures for liberal administrators and faculty while, secondarily, providing a forum to indoctrinate soft young minds in the liberal fetishes du jour. Actually educating students is hard, and a meaningful education is anathema to liberalism. In the liberals’ ideal world, the universities would simply fester with leftist nonsense and not even bother with trying to teach their charges anything at all. And today, it’s pretty close to being the liberals’ ideal world...
Read more at:
http://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2015/03/02/lets-destroy-liberal-academia-n1963149?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad= [townhall.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2015, @11:24PM
a forum to indoctrinate soft young minds in the liberal fetishes du jour
"Indoctrinate"? Yeah. "Liberal"? Not so much.
Clearly, you (and the brain-dead writer of the linked article) haven't been on a campus in over a generation.
Clearly, you accept the Neoliberal media's swill without question.
Now, go to a campus bookstore|library and try to find a book that is pro-Communism.
You are a very silly consumer of very silly propaganda.
This guy has it closer to right:
Education Has Little To Do With Knowledge [dissidentvoice.org]
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...and, BTW, anything in a URL that contains utm_ is just noise; half of your link is just garbage.
Try trimming that out that next time and see if the link doesn't work just as well.
Oh, and townhall.com ??
and
Get real.
-- gewg_