Black Education Decline--Walter E. Williams

Black Education Decline
"New York Mayor Bill de Blasio says that the city's specialized high schools have a diversity problem. 
He's joined by New York City Schools Chancellor Richard A. Carranza, educators, students and community leaders who want to fix the diversity problem. 
I bet you can easily guess what they will do to "improve" the racial mix of students (aka diversity). 
If you guessed they would propose eliminating the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test as the sole criterion for admissions, go to the head of the class. 
...It's taken as axiomatic that the relatively few blacks admitted to these high-powered schools is somehow tied to racial discrimination. 
...Here are questions that might be asked of de Blasio and others who want to "fix the diversity problem" at New York's specialized schools: 

• What has the triumph of egalitarian and diversity principles done for the rest of New York's school system? 
• Are their academic achievement scores better than students at New York's specialized schools? 
• The most important question for black parents: What has been allowed to happen to cripple black academic excellence?

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