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Grim Graduation Rates for Black Males Highlight Racial Gap

Seeded on Tue Aug 17, 2010 1:03 PM EDT
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It's a "national crisis," the report found that only 47 percent of black males graduated from high school in the 2007-2008 school year.

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more than four times as many white male students take advanced placement math and science courses as black males.

Despite the decades of modified educational programs and accepted lower standards, and unConstitutional Affirmative Action styled programs, Black Males still under-perform their White peers.

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Reply#1 - Tue Aug 17, 2010 1:08 PM EDT
YaddaYadda

According to the report, "(M)ore than twice as many black students are classified as 'mentally retarded' in spite of research demonstrating that the percentages of students from all groups are approximately the same at each intelligence level."

Why is that??

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Reply#2 - Fri Aug 20, 2010 1:35 PM EDT
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