December 04, 2006
Report finds little benefit to elementary and secondary school diversity programs
H/T Sister Toldjah.
Via the American Thinker, here is a report released from the United States Commission on Civil Rights that essentially states that there is “scant evidence” that diversity in elementary and secondary schools is beneficial to students. Specifically:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Less than one week before the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral argument[s] in two significant cases involving the use of racial benefits to reduce minority isolation in elementary and secondary education, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights today issued an important briefing report on The Benefits of Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Elementary and Secondary Education. The report finds that social science studies provide scant proof of the benefits for racial and ethnic groups attributed to diversity in elementary and secondary education.
Specifically, the Commission finds that “there is little evidence that racial and ethnic diversity in elementary and secondary schools results in significant improvements in academic performance; studies on the effect of school racial composition on academic achievement often suggest modest and inconsistent benefits.” Similarly, the Commission notes that “studies of whether racial and ethnic diversity result in significant social and non-educational benefits report varied results.”
Chairman Gerald A. Reynolds commented that “the academic literature really provides little or no support for the view that racial preferences in student assignment serve any compelling interest. In my view, the evidence, suggests that these preferences do not provide significant academic benefits to minority children that would compensate for the moral costs of government’s use of racial classifications.”
Here’s the full report. For dial up, the loading time may be slow (it’s a 6.42 MB file).
Like so many other liberal programs it seems that the desperate desire to be diverse, by force if necessary, is at best useless, and at worst destructive.
Can you say Duh?!?
These programs insist on an artifically constructed balance of race that is in its own methods racist. Anything that is discriminatory in nature and further distracts from a troubled education system has no where to go but down.
I hope the SCOTUS sees the reality here and rules accordingly.
Cross posted from LSU
Posted by guitarplayr at December 04, 2006
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1. I went to a high school in California that had the forced busing program. All that happened was that the different racial and social groups tended to hang out in little cliques and you rarely so any real intergration. Eventually the program was ended, because the costs far outweighed any benefits.
2. I went to college in California in the late 80s. We had a very amenable and highly educated incoming student population. As far as I could tell, most of the incoming freshman population had transcended the racism of our parents, granparents and other previous generations. And then in 1988, the liberal elites became entrenched at my college as teachers and administrator and started to have their way. A new "multicultural" program was implemented. Special clubs were formed for all of the different minority races. Of course their were no special clubs for whites. Where before there had been none, suddenly the campus was awash in racial tension. Tempers flared, editorials were written in the student paper. It was an ugly time. And there's been a lot more racism since the multiculturalists took over.
My daughter has never asked me about the color of other people's skin. She just believes that people come in all colors, like flowers. The accident of geography that created race has been a never ending source of strife. Particularly in more ignorant times when fewer people understood the migration of the human population out of Africa over the centuries.
It's unbelievable that just as we were on the cusp of a world where people were beginning to be judged more by the content of their character, monstrous Marxist elites have come along and created a new cultural racism.
I view any person who who advocates racial quotas, or any of the other nonsense from Seattle Public Schools being debated by the SCOTUS as nothing more than a vile and ignorant racist on par with a Klansman of yesteryear.
3. Well, obviously we can't TRUST the US Commission on Civil Rights right now because McChimpBushHitlerCheneyHalliburton is in control! Why, the commission MUST be simply spewing forth what the administration (you know, the one with all those racist whiteys, never mind Powell, Rice, Panetta, Gonzales, Gutierrez, and the others - they're just diversions!) wants it to say...
/sarc