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Originally Posted by Guest
IF it's true at all. It's probably handpicked students and it's WAY too costly to give the individual attention these kids NEEDED to get "comparable" grades. They DIDN'T get BETTER grades or even EQUAL grades. Even with all this individualized instruction, they were STILL below the white kids. Give the white kids that kind of advantage and they'd blow those black kids out of the water.
They NEED "affirmative action, EXTRA help, to even come close. We're NOT equal. We need to stop pretending we are, it's destroying the country.
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We asked for a neighborhood school which had the poorest achievement tests in the City School District .
There was no special selection of students we began with the same student body from the neighborhood . We began with the same teachers that were assigned to the school .
The kids DID eventually achieve as high as a number of the suburban and rural schools within the County . They achieved higher than several but NO they Did Not achieve as high the Best
schools and no one expected that we could do so .
YES there was a point of diminishing returns so to speak in that after several years of rising scores they leveled off still much higher than the comparable many schools .
Our Chairman was not seeking notoriety for himself , our company or this experiment . As I understand it the consultants from Columbia University did publish the project in a scholarly journal or two .
Somehow CNN became aware of this story and produced a one hour program . It was originally set to debut on a Sunday evening in mid-September of 2001 ------ however this turned out to be the Sunday right after the 9/11 attacks . So it did not air until around December of that year as I recall .
Also somehow the UN became aware of it and recognized the project with an International Award which was handed out in some city in Turkey .
Our Chairman declined to attend and asked Senator Clinton to accept for him since she also had been invited to the ceremony .
One of my Direct Reports was the liason between our company and the school and he flew to Turkey to accept the award with Ms. Clinton .
It is a real project that happened just as I have shared and continues to this day . By now my former employer has easily invested over $20 Million so it is no small effort . And perhaps not easily replicated .