Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Groupings vs. flight
By Thomas Sowell
November 29, 2005


"The New White Flight" was the title of an eye-opening article in the Nov. 20 Wall Street Journal. It was about a high school in Cupertino, Calif., where a growing Asian-American student population is causing rising academic standards -- and causing many white parents to withdraw their children from the school and some to move away.
The school has some of the state's highest test scores. Though everybody favors high academic standards in the abstract, not everyone favors struggling to meet them.
One white mother taking her son to an after-school soccer game noticed all the Asian-American parents arriving to take their children to an after-school study program. A few years of her son playing soccer while the Asian kids were hitting the books would be bound to create academic disparities.



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