By Steve Sailer
01/17/2024
From my new column in Taki’s Magazine:
Drowning in Data
Steve SailerJanuary 17, 2024
I think I’ve stumbled upon one type of education that actually would effectively reduce an unfortunate racial gap.
Most forms of instruction don’t, of course.
In the first dozen years of this century, billionaires such as Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg and politicians like George W. Bush and Ted Kennedy obsessed over school reform as the cure for what ails us, racially speaking. All we have to do, they agreed, is fix education and then racial gaps would vanish.
So, a lot of public and private money was spent on a variety of initiatives, leftist, rightist, and centrist.
But then…nothing much happened. The gaps in school performance between the races didn’t go away as promised. …
Yet, I can imagine a variety of education that probably actually does some good at reducing racial disparities, one that, if billionaires feel like giving, our society could use more of …
Read the whole thing there.
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