Are American schools actively failing nontraditional students?
“Consider this situation: Members of a minority, many of whom were brought to this country as slave labor, are at the bottom of the social ladder. They do the dirty work, when they have work. The rest of the society considers them violent and stupid …Over the years, tensions between minority and majority have occasionally broken out into deadly riots. In the past, minority children were compelled to go to segregated schools and did poorly academically. [A]nd, as might be expected, the minority children do worse on standardized tests than majority children do. What is this minority? Koreans in Japan.” -Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth Last Sunday evening, as I was just beginning to cozy up to a cup of hot chocolate at Java Zone and prepare for my penultimate lecture in Contemporary Asian Pacific American Issues Class, my relative state of calm and anticipation was violently disturbed when I picked up the most recent edition of the Oberlin Review. I perused the first
