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Answer Nothing: “… race-blind screening processes normally will produce large gaps between the test scores of blacks and whites” (Dickens and Kane 2002).

There are more interesting posts on this blog, The Education Optimists from Liam Goldrick and Sara Goldrick-Rab who are Madison-based husband and wife blogging tag team.

The Economist (via Aaron Cohen):

Broadly speaking, countries that are more ethnically or racially homogeneous are more comfortable with the state seeking to mitigate inequality by transferring some resources from richer to poorer people through the fiscal system. This may explain why Swedes complain less about high taxes than the inhabitants of a country of immigrants such as America. But it also suggests that even societies with a tradition of high taxes (such as those in Scandinavia) might find that their citizens would become less willing to finance generous welfare programmes were immigrants to make up a greater share of their populations. Immigration can also subtly alter the overall attitude towards such matters in another way.

Andrew Sullivan on the new American fundamentalism:

This ideology comes perilously close to arguing that something must be right because America does it, or has done it. It paradoxically removes the potential for moral improvement and reform by arguing that America was immaculately conceived, and that all that is required for its revival is what Sarah Palin calls a “fundamental restoration”. The core moral narrative of the country - its founding on slavery and its bitter brutal internal conflict to achieve racial justice over the centuries - is simply ignored.

We should make t-shirts that just say, “What Else Did They Get Wrong?” Perhaps that would be too subtle.

SeoulBrother on race and language. Sad, insightful, inspiring.

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