this book red pilled me on 2 things:
First, every school district should have 3 distinct programs
a) advanced placement program for students past 1 deviation above mean, this should be goal oriented, open ended research guided by Bloom's 2 sigma problem style mastery tutoring
b) regular american rote learning program with standardized exams for the 2/3 of students within 1 std dev of the mean.
c) expanded retard program. we only have special needs education for window lickers and mouth breathers today. the special education program needs to be expanded. i went to high school with kids who didn't have autism but couldn't read a novel either. educational opportunities need to be expanded for them. it should be focused around manual tasks, simple logic, and maximizing their limited capabilities. but it needs to be expanded from the 1% of retards to the 15% of below 1 std dev kids. in america that's about 8 million kids. and a lot of them are going to be black.
interestingly, here is a study showing that minorities are *less* likely than white kids to be selected for special education. this is probably because white families are rich enough to have their kids diagnosed.
https://www.brookings.edu/research/race-poverty-and-interpreting-overrepresentation-in-special-education/Second, there are many more genius level blacks than i realized. i am embarrassed to admit i judged many intelligent black people on their skin, because there are many people who look like them that are complete idiots. but the bell curve extends to the right too. even if blacks are less intelligent on average, there still exists many at a genius level who are smarter than me. so the book has led me to appreciate black intellectuals much more, because i now know that many of them must exist.
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