Re: Is "Grade Level" A Load of Hooey?

[QCao009@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/7/2009 3:20:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
gbracey@q.com writes:

Still,
the average black 12th grader scored 267 in 2005 compared to  293 for whites.
That's about a 2 1/2 year difference as NAEP goes and  slightly below the
271 of white 8th graders.  It's hard to think of  that as "slightly better"
for whites.  



Jerry, very thorough analysis.  I can't help thinking of "age  appropriate" 
and " least restrictive environment" as I read the definitions you  cited.
 
Didn't they say white men can't jump?  And then, Chris Rock comes out  and 
puts together the well concocted myth of a superior race by saying  that we 
accomplish on the plantations what Hitler could never do with the Aryan  race and 
now all our African American sport stars are a result of this  "breeding".  It 
always sounds so much more authentic when a representative  of the race comes 
up with another Forrest Gump conspiracy  theory.  Some time, life just 
follows art, and fact is a direct descendant  of imagination.
 
Quan
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