Sam I am no going to do your research for you. I gave a link to the NORC site. did i up on your own instead of being such a lazy slug.
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Sam <sammyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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:323273 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
