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Black students need better schools, not lower standards

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3 min read . Updated: 08 Feb 2023, 06:33 PM IST Jason L. Riley, The Wall Street Journal

Low-income black students need quality schools, not white classmates, and the focus on racial balance at any cost will only ensure that another generation of black youth receives an inferior education. (Photo: AP) — Low-income black students need quality schools, not white classmates, and the focus on racial balance at any cost will only ensure that another generation of black youth receives an inferior education. (Photo: AP)

The fixation on racial parity at any cost will doom yet another generation to educational failure

The good news is that the College Board has revised the curriculum for its new Advanced Placement course in African-American studies. Topics such as “black queer studies" and “intersectionality and activism" have been downgraded or expunged. The bad news is that offering the course to begin with remains an exercise in racial pandering.

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