Ted was on Chicago’s Morning Answer with Dan and Amy to take a closer look at the dismal 2022 education results that Gov. Pritzker said shows “great promise.” Ted pointed out that Gov. Pritzker’s spin is only skin-deep. Peel back his “achievements” on graduation rates, growth and teacher hiring and you’re left with a simple fact: students’ reading proficiency fell again in 2022.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Six facts Gov. Pritzker doesn’t want you to know about Illinois’ 2022 Report Card
- Illinois’ 2021 student outcomes collapsed during school shutdowns, Covid mitigations
- Wirepoints in the Wall Street Journal: Unions Ask Illinois Voters to Sign Over Control of the State.
- Update: Illinois now has the worst unemployment rate in the nation
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Mistake #1 is confusing a government jobs program with “education.”
Left wing teachers are intentionally creating sub–literates — to make it easier to fill their heads with the twin mind poisons of: (1) diversity-racism; and (2) normalization of deviant sex practices
Now give them preferential admission and scholarships to state universities and preferential hiring in civil service so they can govern us in 10 years. Or populate our judiciary and law firms and hospital staffs. Or give them tenure at those universities. Talk about INFRAstructure!
It may be a bit foolish to predict the future, but given the oral arguments in the UNC and Harvard cases it is soon likely that racial discrimination and race preferences will no longer lawfully be part of university admissions. The universities will continue to discriminate based on race with some form of Voldemortian holistic scheme but discriminatory admission practices will be more difficult to implement than now. A rational response to this event would be to increase discipline and rigor, particularly in urban school districts. Universities have a supply problem, and there is no magic formula to fix it.… Read more »
“Universities have a supply problem” They sure do. Too many seats but not enough diverse qualified candidates and the pipeline is looking bleaker too as demographics change. The state schools are cleaning up with the best students that have been rejected by the elite schools. U of I has had some of its biggest classes ever as Notre Dame, U of C, NW, etc, reject the children of their alumni in favor of less qualified students with darker colored skin. I heard from the father of an ND applicant that the most recent class is almost half ‘diverse’ even though… Read more »
The top schools have a supply problem when it comes to black students and to a lesser degree Hispanic students. The numbers are not there. Non top schools have a supply problem, period. Witness the declining population of Illinois’ satellite public schools. Not mentioned in the oral arguments is the mismatch problem. I can only relate what I observed. At my very competitive graduate school, the thumb on the scale in terms of racial preferences was too big. The school wanted its numbers. A storied professor admitted to me the school went too far as the outcomes for many of… Read more »
Along these same lines, I read once that there are roughly 200,000 seats per year at the top universities. They have no trouble attracting students and they cherry pick the best affirmative action applicants. It’s the colleges below the top 200,000 that also want diversity and inclusion and start accepting totally unqualified applicants who struggle. The very bottom of the rung, the crappy satellite state schools you talk about, they’ll accept anyone that applies, and they don’t even use test scores any more. I have lawyer friends (but IANAL) and they tell me the same has happened with law schools… Read more »
“The universities will continue to discriminate based on race with some form of Voldemortian holistic scheme” What they’ll do is just defiantly #resist and be sued over and over again. These people are ideologues. They view the SCOTUS as illegitimate. I listened to their arguments in court. They did not make legal arguments. They spewed talking points over and over again. Diversity is our strength. Corporate employers want diversity. Race is not a determinate factor in decision making. Etc. They made, at least in oral argument, few ‘legal’ arguments. Look at what happened to Oberlin College. They were sued for… Read more »