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To: LindyBill who wrote (11446)10/9/2003 5:52:20 AM
From: greenspirit  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 793843
 
Bill, the first article is interesting but it failed to come to any conclusions regarding why black middle class children perform on average worse in school.

I don't believe a lot of studies are necessary. They simply watch more television instead of reading or doing their homework. They're also read to less in the early stages of development.

These appear to be the primary reason.

Ahh, I see the second article agrees with my premise.

Seems pretty obvious to me. If you study, and if you read allot you learn, if you boob-tube it, you dumb down the population.



To: LindyBill who wrote (11446)10/9/2003 12:42:53 PM
From: JohnM  Respond to of 793843
 
I would hardly call anything by the Thernstrom's "seminal." I liked his earlier social history work, then heard about the classroom incident he publicized as a mind changer. Turned out the students in the room contested his version, vigorously. She is, of course, and has been, for some time, very right wing.

So rather than seminal, it's something to be read with great care. I would expect to see the ideological agenda trumping the data.


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