Did that study take into account that the schools are rigged against minorities? They refuse to allow vouchers or charters so they are stuck in the failed schools?
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > No its simply a fact, not an excuse. For instance take the NORC > dataset (see http://www.norc.org/homepage.htm) - this data is the > result of a 20 year longitudinal study of all the children in the > Chicago region school systems, including urban, suburban and rural > systems. The children were followed throughout their school career. In > the end over 50,000 children were followed for about 1 to 14 years. > Not only was school achievement assess, but socioeconomic status, > parental involvement, etc. > > The shared variance (or r squared value) between race and economic > status was over 40%, meaning that the two factors (race and SES) were > strongly related. To such an extent that you cannot statistically > remove the effect of poverty from ethnicity effects nor can you > eliminate the effects of race on effects due to socio-economic status. > > Similar results are found in the census data and in other very large > datasets. Its not saying that one group is better than the other, its > saying that this strong relationship exists and has to be taken into > account in any statistical model you create. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:323270 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
