Getting Educated

For John, BLUF:  Maybe it is just in conservative circles, but there seems to be a consensus that students did better in school in the old days, albeit, Blacks did not do well in segregated schools.  On the other hand, court ordered business, as in Boston, didn't seem to fix the problem.  On the other hand, expensive as it is, Lowell's busing plan seems to have generated the kind of school building and educational reform proponents of busing were seeking.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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STUDY:  Minority Kids Perform Better in Conservative School Districts

From PJ Media, the VodkaPundit, by Mr Stephen Green, 28 January 2020.

Here is the lede plus one:

There's a new study showing a depressing "achievement gap" between white and minority students, and that the gap is much wider in progressive-run cities than it is in conservative ones.

In a Martin Luther King Day-themed op-ed for the Minneapolis Tribune, civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong addresses the "open secret" that in the Twin Cities, "black and brown children are being left behind within the public school system." Armstrong says that "One might expect that politically progressive cities would be leading the way in closing the opportunity gap in education," but a new study from brightbeam, a nonprofit education advocacy organization, shows that conservative-run cities enjoy a much smaller education gap. According to brightbeam, "conservative cities have gaps in math and reading that are on average 15 and 13 percentage points smaller than those in progressive cities," she notes.

The numbers must be shocking to our oh-so-caring progressive friends:

In three of the most conservative cities — Anaheim, Fort Worth and Virginia Beach, researchers found that leaders have either closed or eliminated opportunity gaps in either reading, math or high school graduation rates.

Meanwhile, in our own “progressive” city of Minneapolis, the report showed that the shameful gap in math achievement between black and white students in K-12 is 53 percentage points, while the gap in math between brown and white students is 45 points.

Similarly, in reading, the gap between black and white Minneapolis students is 53, while the gap between brown and white students is 47.

Compare that with “conservative” Jacksonville, Fla., where the reading gap between black and white students is 30; and the math gap is 27.

When Florida Man does a better job than you do of educating kids, maybe it's time for some serious self-reflection.

My suspicion is that it isn't so much that more conservative local governments are better at education as it is citizens who have conservative values with regard to the education of their children tend to elect more conservative local governments.

How do we instill conservative values, such as self-discipline and education in parents, to instill in their children?

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff