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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Troll Patrol: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by claus3600: [qb] @brada anansi I'm glad you at least saw where I was coming from with my question. I'm disappointed that Clyde and Jari thought I was endorsing some idea that Africans are inherently more intelligent than Afican-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans. I don't understand how they couldn't see where I was going with the question. Why the defensive responses? [/qb][/QUOTE]It was not a defensive response. The USA has always been a land of immigrants. It is a society based on who has and who does not have money. As a result, people with money are going to advance further than people without. So it is only natural that the West Africans who come to America will money are going to do better than native born AAs who are an underclass. I am an Ed Psychologist. This discussion about IQ test is irrelevant because results on these test are the result of the socio-economic status of the test taker--since the SES of the test taker will determine their education and training it is only natural that people with a higher SES will score higher than people with a lower SES. In addition IQ test are not stagnant. Research indicates that they can improve given the education and training of the test taker. . [/qb][/QUOTE]I do see your point, Just 20 years ago, American students were among the best in the world, routinely coming in first in test results. Now, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, students in the richest country on earth are in 24th place in math. That's behind Canada, Germany, France, Korea...but also smaller, poorer countries like Poland, Hungary and Slovakia. With a net worth of about $51 billion, Microsoft founder and world's richest man, Bill Gates, and his wife, Melinda (two of Time magazine's "Persons of the Year" in 2005), are determined to use their fortune to change the crisis in American schools. Through their influential Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, they are trying to revolutionize an education system that, if it were a business, Bill says, "would be bankrupt." Melinda adds that this is not an isolated problem of poverty. "This is affecting all schools," she says. "Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system." Read more: http://www.oprah.com/world/Failing-Grade#ixzz1nEmEKyel In Part 1 of our report, Bill and Melinda Gates highlighted some of the biggest problems facing America's schools—obsolete education, high dropout rates and underperforming graduates. With the help of former basketball all-star and education advocate Kevin Johnson, they have launched a new campaign, Stand Up, to address the crisis. While playing for the Phoenix Suns, Kevin took his team to the playoffs 10 years in a row. During the NBA off-season, Kevin returned to his hometown of Sacramento, California, to make a difference. He saw that life in his old neighborhood was still a struggle. To combat the influences of drugs, jail and unemployment on kids in Sacramento, Kevin opened an after-school program called St. Hope Academy designed to keep high-risk kids off the streets. During his time off, he routinely spent 12 hours a day, six days a week working at St. Hope. He quickly realized this was his true calling. In 2000 Kevin retired to focus on education. "I couldn't wait to get out of the game so that I could do something bigger and more important than basketball," he says. He now works full-time running the six schools that make up the St. Hope Public School System in Sacramento. Read more: http://www.oprah.com/world/School-Solutions#ixzz1nEn83he6 In Washington, D.C., CNN's Anderson Cooper found a school that has turned students' lives around. "Most of these kids were two grades behind when they transferred here from some of the lowest performing schools in the country," he says. "Now they're outscoring every public middle school in Washington." The school is called KIPP—short for Knowledge Is Power Program—part of a growing network of schools around the country. It's the brainchild of Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, two Ivy League grads and Teach for America alumni who thought they could do a better job than the public school system. Now with 46 KIPP schools across the country, they're out to prove that they are right. Read more: http://www.oprah.com/world/School-Solutions/4#ixzz1nEo13jLm [/QB][/QUOTE]
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