tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4983334520933101277.post2060387293432878984..comments2024-02-16T06:29:33.587-08:00Comments on Welcome to " The Math UnderGround " -- Seattle & Washington State: Instructional Staff Survey of Seattle Public Schoolsdan dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536720661510933983noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4983334520933101277.post-74524130837177785792008-03-07T17:26:00.000-08:002008-03-07T17:26:00.000-08:00Having been involved with education for decades, I...Having been involved with education for decades, I can not say that I've investigated the "Race differences in intelligence" as a research topic. I just do not know.<BR/><BR/>It strikes me immediately that there are different ethnicities but not different races.<BR/><BR/>I've noticed that disadvantaged learners have more difficulty in school. Having worked with extremely talented individuals of most ethnicities, I see the school performance difficulty as primarily caused by environmental factors.<BR/><BR/>In looking at Project Follow Through I have little doubt that extremely poor curricula and practices are instructionally disabling many students. If young students have poor texts and no outside support learning is extremely difficult.<BR/><BR/><B>I will choose to spend my time trying to improve the situations that I have a shot at changing</B> and the patience to accept most that are beyond changing except for a bunch in Seattle that I will still loudly oppose. Of course I will pray for strength to change the ones I can and the wisdom to be able to determine the bureaucratic black holes and avoid most of them.<BR/><BR/>I cannot change anyone's DNA but we can certainly start improving many of the insane practices brought to education by the data ignorant tribes of Group Thinkers.dan dempseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15536720661510933983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4983334520933101277.post-32555960417336999802008-03-07T16:49:00.000-08:002008-03-07T16:49:00.000-08:00The achievement gap is genetically based and can n...The achievement gap is genetically based and can never be appreciably closed. That's why everything that has been tried for the last 30-40 years and the huge resource expenditures have all failed. See Hart, "Understanding Human History" and Lynn, "Race Differences in Intelligence." Both are recent publications easily read and understood by the layperson. <BR/><BR/>The place to get the truth is *not* from an activist, or politician, or big-bucks consultant, or your best friend, or school officials, or your minister/pastor/rabbi, or your favorite blog. You get the *TRUTH* from the Peer-Reviewed Literature. All the needed citations are in the references above. It is not controversial...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com