I'm surprised to learn, on Twitter, that internationally famous policy wonk Matt Yglesias has never heard of the infamous Griggs v. Duke Power decision—and a number of others:
In a 2012 Slate article...
It’s almost as if somewhere up the career ladder, affirmative action almost always runs out. For example, apparently when you are a neurosurgery resident, the senior neurosurgeons get extremely seriou...
From: A Berkeley Reader [Email her]
This is a typical item from Berkeleyside, the city's online local newspaper:
Black and Latino students in Berkeley Unified are overrepresented in special edTwenty-e...
Why not just automatically give all blacks A’s?
White privilege?
Systemic inequities?
Implicit bias?
Explain this.
OPRF to implement race-based grading system in 2022-23 school year, West Cook News,...
From the website for the Center for Measurement Justice:
CENTER FOR MEASUREMENT JUSTICEWe seek to disrupt racist, white supremacist logics that have historically informed our assessment and measure...
From the International Monetary Fund’s Finance & Development magazine:
THE BASIC SKILLS GAP
ERIC A. HANUSHEK , LUDGER WOESSMANN
UPCOMING JUNE ISSUE
April 26, 2022
… Based on the available eviden...
From Reuters:
May 3, 2022The racial gap in bar exam pass rates got worse in 2021By Karen Sloan
Summary
ABA data show the disparity in first-time pass rates between white and Black law grads grew to...
iSteve commenter James N. Kennett writes:
MIT News reports that MIT Math majors win all top five spots (Putnam Fellowships) in the Mathematical Association of America’s (MAA’s) 82nd Putnam Mathemat...
Earlier: Google's Expensive Diversity Push Isn't Uncovering Many Diamonds In The Rough, Especially At HBCUs
There are no companies on Earth more Woke than the big Silicon Valley software giants; and am...
Earlier(2014) : Charles Murray on the 20th Anniversary of "The Bell Curve"
From the New York Times news section:
Republican in Ohio Senate Primary Spoke Offensively About Asians
Mike Gibbons, a lea...
