White flight is creating a separate and unequal system of higher education - The Washington Post

What a stupid and worthless story...it ignores the REAL reasons minorities don't do as well.

"In the post-World War II era, whites fled the center city to the leafy-green suburbs and better neighborhood schools. Today, a similar trend has taken root in American higher education, only this time whites are fleeing the underfunded and overcrowded two-year and four-year open-access colleges for the nation’s top 500 universities."

ANYTHING to get away from them!

"Meanwhile, as blacks and Latinos have swarmed the halls of open-access colleges, whites have fled them."

"82 percent of students at top universities graduate, compared to 49 percent of students at open-access colleges."

MOST of those graduates are white. 80% of blacks fail the graduate.

"Blacks and Latinos graduate at a 73 percent rate at the more academically rigorous top 500 universities compared to a 40 percent rate at open-access colleges"

So blacks DO graduate at lower rates than white...no matter which school they attend. They also choose EASIER, non STEM courses.

"So, what can be done? First, we must also acknowledge the inherent limits of affirmative action as we know it. The racial stratification of higher education is a systemic problem. It will not be solved by opening up a few more seats at the top few dozen colleges. The small share of blacks and Latinos who beat the odds and get into the best colleges are proof that, in the end, it’s the odds that count. Racial disadvantage, like racial privilege, comes from a complex network of mutually reinforcing economic and educational mechanisms that serve as systemic obstacles to racial justice. These economic and educational mechanisms are generally colorblind in theory but not in fact."

What we REALLY need to do is admit that genetically we're very different. Would you expect Coco the gorilla to do well in college? Why? Because genetically...she's NOT us.

"Systemic obstacles require systemic responses. We can start thinking systemically by moving away from the current test-crazed admissions competition for seats at our top colleges. Test scores are the crucial factor in admissions decisions at selective colleges, but they explain less than half the difference in graduation rates among students. Yet, test scores enable selective institutions to dodge racial justice behind a superficial shield of institutional quality."

They CAN'T compete on a level playing field...so lets ELIMINATE testing so they don't look so bad and we can get them through.

"A student who gets an average score on the SAT would have an 80 percent chance of graduating from college but has almost no chance of getting into a top university."

Why SHOULD someone with AVERAGE scores get into a TOP school? Again...minorities want to be GIVEN things they "don't deserve".

"Happily, we have seen a large increase in access to postsecondary education for black and Latino students, but access to a separate and unequal system is no gift. The measure of college success that matters is not access, it’s outcomes, including labor market outcomes. The current system creates more dropouts than graduates among black and Latino students. If we would give those students access to selective colleges or the kinds of resources those colleges provide, their graduation rates would almost double. That’s an outcome we can all live with."

So the answer is LOWER the "standards" even more so minorities CAN pass?

What a whiny, pu$$y...

Hey minorities...want to succeed like the white people? Become smarter and more ambitious, quit WAITING for someone else to "help" you and start helping yourself.

Want to help your species? Convince 90% of your fellow minorities to stop breeding. Only the top should be having kids. The way it is now...the dregs, the sub 80 IQs are having all the kids. It's taking down EVERYTHING...education, standard of living, industry...we're required to carry 20% dead wood and it's slowly destroying the country.