The outcomes cited by Mr. Creswell are well-established and under-appreciated. Furthermore, they make logical sense. Similar findings have been discovered when women pursue STEM at women’s colleges rather than coed institutions, although for different reasons.
We would be happier all around if we sought human flourishing in a variety of forms, rather than obsessing about numeric representations in each racial, gender, and socioeconomic group. For every Black denied admission to an Ivy League university, there are 6-8 times as many Whites who also get that thin envelope as HS seniors.
Human beings pursue in-group racial preferences starting with marriage rates (>85%) and only change over long sweeps of time as individuals know and trust each other. Coercing outcomes is a temporary high with longer term shortcomings.
Mostly accurate, but I do fear that in some ways this could end up being even worse. The SCOTUS left open a loophole, which is that it's fine for a black student to talk about their race in their essay, and for the school to take that into account. Whereas previously, a black student might've not thought about race in their lives at all, but just "checked the box", now the same black student might think that they should foreground the role of race in their lives, as that's what will be, or was, front and center in the application essay. Paradoxically, we travel down a path of even more focus on racial identity . . .
This essay raises compelling point. I’m mostly for SC striking AA down because of how uncertain race has become in the USA. “Black” as a racial category became watered down post-1965. How many of the “black” students admitted because of AA were African and Caribbean as opposed to native black slave descendants? I think Justice Thomas addresses this in his opinion. I hope we can move towards a mainstream conversation on what is black in America in an era where Africans and Caribbean migrants are outpacing native born blacks in education and economics.
I eventually got my PhD in math from Purdue, with undergrad at Creighton. I was almost perfectly placed at both. I doubt I would have made it at MIT for either. It's not that I couldn't understand the same stuff, eventually, but the pace and level of guidance would not have fit me. I thank the Lord that I didn't end up at a school I wasn't matched for. In fact, I could have been challenged a bit more at Creighton (and actually was when thinking pre-med, which helped me learn I really wasn't wired for that), and I barely made it out of Purdue with my ego intact, particularly the first two years which had me considering quitting and going to an easier school. Looking back, though, I wouldn't have changed either school choice for me. (Not that I would send a kid to Creighton anymore. Too expensive and too woke.)
We need to attain Equality with the palefaces who cannot figure out planned obsolescence in automobiles half-a-century after the Moon landing? And listen to economists who say nothing about the depreciation of the under engineered crap year after year.
I asked a PhD economist to explain how an automobile engine worked. He couldn't even start.
How many automobiles have Americans trashed since Sputnik? There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the US in 1994. Consumerism is based on brainwashing dummies. We could have been teaching double-entry accounting to Black kids at home since the 1950s. What would the effect of that have been by now? My mother paid tuition to nitwit nuns who never taught science. One nun told me, "You will get into a good high school but you won't do well."
Neither of my parents suggested any books K-8. Why don't Black Americans create a K-12 reading list? College is not the be all and end all.
I find it really curious that lots of people with college degrees have not talked about the distribution of steel down skyscrapers since 9/11. Go to school to learn to be told what to think. It's a physics problem guys. Sometimes known as STEM.
What a purely Progressive perspective on Black Americans. I thought I was reading an article written by a bonafide White liberal who viewed Black scholars as incapable of succeeding at higher education schools. When I tapped the links for some of your sources, I discovered you pulled data from a DECADE ago. I always find it quite odd that supposed conservative channels ALWAYS pull their data sources from White Progressives, who have been responsible for creating significant barriers to the learning experiences of Black youth. And when these youths fail, they get blamed for it EXCLUSIVELY.
I’m curious, exactly what “skills” do you specifically identify as being a mark of Black scholars? Because clearly, skills related to academic excellence is not a part of your argument. So, tell me which “skills” mark Black students, and which colleges are most appropriate for these skills ... since we want to play the race card.
The outcomes cited by Mr. Creswell are well-established and under-appreciated. Furthermore, they make logical sense. Similar findings have been discovered when women pursue STEM at women’s colleges rather than coed institutions, although for different reasons.
We would be happier all around if we sought human flourishing in a variety of forms, rather than obsessing about numeric representations in each racial, gender, and socioeconomic group. For every Black denied admission to an Ivy League university, there are 6-8 times as many Whites who also get that thin envelope as HS seniors.
Human beings pursue in-group racial preferences starting with marriage rates (>85%) and only change over long sweeps of time as individuals know and trust each other. Coercing outcomes is a temporary high with longer term shortcomings.
Mostly accurate, but I do fear that in some ways this could end up being even worse. The SCOTUS left open a loophole, which is that it's fine for a black student to talk about their race in their essay, and for the school to take that into account. Whereas previously, a black student might've not thought about race in their lives at all, but just "checked the box", now the same black student might think that they should foreground the role of race in their lives, as that's what will be, or was, front and center in the application essay. Paradoxically, we travel down a path of even more focus on racial identity . . .
This essay raises compelling point. I’m mostly for SC striking AA down because of how uncertain race has become in the USA. “Black” as a racial category became watered down post-1965. How many of the “black” students admitted because of AA were African and Caribbean as opposed to native black slave descendants? I think Justice Thomas addresses this in his opinion. I hope we can move towards a mainstream conversation on what is black in America in an era where Africans and Caribbean migrants are outpacing native born blacks in education and economics.
I eventually got my PhD in math from Purdue, with undergrad at Creighton. I was almost perfectly placed at both. I doubt I would have made it at MIT for either. It's not that I couldn't understand the same stuff, eventually, but the pace and level of guidance would not have fit me. I thank the Lord that I didn't end up at a school I wasn't matched for. In fact, I could have been challenged a bit more at Creighton (and actually was when thinking pre-med, which helped me learn I really wasn't wired for that), and I barely made it out of Purdue with my ego intact, particularly the first two years which had me considering quitting and going to an easier school. Looking back, though, I wouldn't have changed either school choice for me. (Not that I would send a kid to Creighton anymore. Too expensive and too woke.)
We need to attain Equality with the palefaces who cannot figure out planned obsolescence in automobiles half-a-century after the Moon landing? And listen to economists who say nothing about the depreciation of the under engineered crap year after year.
I asked a PhD economist to explain how an automobile engine worked. He couldn't even start.
How many automobiles have Americans trashed since Sputnik? There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the US in 1994. Consumerism is based on brainwashing dummies. We could have been teaching double-entry accounting to Black kids at home since the 1950s. What would the effect of that have been by now? My mother paid tuition to nitwit nuns who never taught science. One nun told me, "You will get into a good high school but you won't do well."
Neither of my parents suggested any books K-8. Why don't Black Americans create a K-12 reading list? College is not the be all and end all.
I find it really curious that lots of people with college degrees have not talked about the distribution of steel down skyscrapers since 9/11. Go to school to learn to be told what to think. It's a physics problem guys. Sometimes known as STEM.
What a purely Progressive perspective on Black Americans. I thought I was reading an article written by a bonafide White liberal who viewed Black scholars as incapable of succeeding at higher education schools. When I tapped the links for some of your sources, I discovered you pulled data from a DECADE ago. I always find it quite odd that supposed conservative channels ALWAYS pull their data sources from White Progressives, who have been responsible for creating significant barriers to the learning experiences of Black youth. And when these youths fail, they get blamed for it EXCLUSIVELY.
I’m curious, exactly what “skills” do you specifically identify as being a mark of Black scholars? Because clearly, skills related to academic excellence is not a part of your argument. So, tell me which “skills” mark Black students, and which colleges are most appropriate for these skills ... since we want to play the race card.