Wednesday, January 20, 2010

BERKELEY HIGH SCHOOL might drop its science labs from its curriculum. The reason? Too many white kids were taking these classes.

[T]he lamentable “gap” spoken of by Berkeley commandants isn’t in enrollment, but in grades. The white kids are doing better in excess of what is acceptable ... such that the heart-warming state of equality is absent.

If equality of outcome with respect to grades is [Berkeley's] goal, then eliminating the lab courses does ensure that all students will be equally poor in science.
What's next ... the "inequality factories" of math and science?

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