tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post9041890509426644021..comments2024-03-26T11:07:03.496-04:00Comments on Ed Notes Online: Winerip on Ronald Ferguson and Achievement Gaped notes onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-54357090514925369192011-02-15T15:03:25.028-05:002011-02-15T15:03:25.028-05:00Children of color scoring lower on culturally bias...Children of color scoring lower on culturally biased standardized tests is explained 100% by the economic system the students are trapped in. A core feature of capitalism is racism. There are super profits in it and it divides workers like nothing else.<br /><br />Us white folks are willing to accept a blatantly racist conception like "black parents on average are not as academically oriented in raising their children as whites" because the scholar making it is African-American. The white masters of our economy and its government pay such men quite handsomely and quote them quite freely in their newspapers of record.<br /><br />Professor Ferguson is a notch above Rod Paige and Armstrong Williams but he's in the same league. He is a house servant of the master.Paul A. Moorenoreply@blogger.com