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Re: Rich and poor counties
The segregation is caused by the entanglement of property values and school districts. If a school district is good, and therefore in demand, the houses within that district also go up in demand and cost. When the houses get more expensive, there is more money from that district's property taxes to fund the school, making it better still. ...
Posted to Family by jossdown on June 12, 2009
Re: Omitted Variable Bias
''In practice we do not yet know if race itself is one of the factors in the determination of a given student's preferred learning modalities.'' Just an FYI: We have known for decades that race is *not* a (biological) factor in the determination of individual learning modalities. Race is a biological fiction. Race is correlated with learning ...
Posted to Human Nature by Nia Savage on May 5, 2009
Failure to Admit Blagojevich Appointee to Senate Big Mistake
Failure to Admit Illinois Governor Blagojevich's Appointee, the eminently qualified and well reputed Roland Burris, to the United States Senate will prove to be a supremely Big Mistake made by the Democratic Senate Leadership and yes, Barack Obama. News today is that the U.S. Senate will seat 59 Democratic Senators, including their Candidate ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard3 on January 5, 2009
My Samoan Mother Does Not Need Affirmative Action
An AA surgeon, who got into medical school with lower aptitude, grades, test scores and abilities, should operate on my Samoan mother, even though there are better-qualified physicians! Besides your Native grandmother makes you a bigger victim than me with a Mexican (Aztec) mother, so you need AA more. However, I am especially needy, because my ...
Posted to XX Factor by Ralph7 on June 28, 2008
the fringe blog
Dissing fringe classes on a fringe blog? This is almost as outrageous as Lithwick's complaint in this space the other day about a news correspondent being relegated to the land of lip gloss. Does the XX Factor (not to be confused with the XY Factor--I mean Trailhead) not qualify as a land of lip gloss because you people still wear lipstick? My ...
Posted to XX Factor by griffothy on January 17, 2008
Re: women's studies
Huh? How are you supposed to know if a class is, in this case, ''OBJECTIVE, reasonable class about feminism,'' without taking it? And are you saying you only took or take classes that are ''OBJECTIVE, reasonable''? How do you know that going in? And why would want a steady, bland diet of ''reasonable''? On that shouted ''OBJECTIVE'' criterion, ...
Posted to XX Factor by hidaily on January 17, 2008
Women's Studies, the Bane of Feminism?
“Plus, it bothered me that gender and/or women's studies classes were populated entirely by women and gay men, and Af Am classes almost entirely by black students.”Let’s see now, you steered clear of classes attracting women, gays and Af Am students. Well there’s a good strategy for getting to know and understand individuals you rarely meet with ...
Posted to XX Factor by hidaily on January 17, 2008
Jena 6- missing points
If the author were to do a bit more investigation, he would have come up with the following already available timeline from the friends of justice to provide further context for the situation. For example- -Members of the Jena six *were * involved in convening a peaceful protests after the noose incident. One of the responses to this sit ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by brw on September 25, 2007
The last statistic is my point
Hi Degsme, So first I'll reply to your last post--that 33% of the Seattle residents have arrived in the last 5 years. I think that statistic is exactly my point. And I'd agree that it is probably true from anectodal evidence. Most of the families on my parents' block have moved in since 2002, which funny enough is around the time the ...
Posted to The Breakfast Table by Kristine on July 24, 2007
Re: Quotas are not percentages
There are quite a number of private high schools in Seattle. And they have grown in huge numbers since 1970, and all have wait lists. There are (off the top of my head, I'm sure I'm missing a few): Lakeside, Blanchet, University Prep, Seattle Prep, Holy Names, O'Dea, Bush, and Northwest So that's 8 in a city of 500,000. Not insignificant. And I ...
Posted to The Breakfast Table by Kristine on July 17, 2007

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