AP: Affirmative (Action) Placement April 6, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Affirmative Action, Computers & Technology, Education, Racial Pandering.comments closed
When I first spied the Slashdot headline, I thought the reason was racial, in that the “power that be” are doing everything they can to discourage white American students from getting too comfortable with CS/IT as a career track, in order to create the faux necessity for expanding H-1-B allotments. Turns out race is the motivation, but in a more practical manner.
Education Week (h/t Slashdot):
College Board Intends to Drop AP Programs in Four Subjects
Officials overseeing the Advanced Placement program have announced that they intend to drop AP classes and exams in four subject areas, in a pullback expected to affect about 12,500 students and 2,500 teachers worldwide.
Following the end of the 2008-09 academic year, there will be no AP courses or exams in Italian, Latin literature, French literature, and computer science AB, said officials at the College Board, the New York City-based nonprofit organization that owns the AP brand.
The College Board has in past years withdrawn one undersubscribed AP course at a time, but has never taken so many courses off its table of offerings in the half-century since the program started as a way for students to take college-level courses and potentially earn college credit while still in high school.
Trevor Packer, the College Board vice president who oversees the AP program, said the decision was made at a trustee meeting on March 27, and that AP teachers in the affected subjects were notified by e-mail April 3. “Of course, it’s sad for them,” he said of the teachers.
Resource Allocation
Mr. Packer said the decision was made principally because of demographic considerations.
Only a tiny fraction of the members of underrepresented minority groups who take AP exams take the tests in one of those four affected subject areas, he said.
The College Board has made it a priority to reach such students, including those who are African-American and Hispanic.
Therefore, if a given AP exam is too white for the College Board, then the test has to go. Pretty soon, we’ll read a story that the College Board has added AP exams in Diversity Studies and Ebonics. The College Board is going the way of college itself.
Today in East St. Louis April 6, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Black Crime, Illinois & Metro East.comments closed
(1) Loose lips do a lot more than sink ships. The grandson of an 84-year old homeowner in ESL ran his mouth to a bunch of his cronies about all the guns grandpa had in his house. So four of said cronies, one adult and three juveniles, knocked back the house, and one of them held a gun to the elderly man’s head while the others searched for the guns. Luckily, they did not find them, and all four of them were popped and canned. Meanwhile, the ATF still obsesses over straw purchases.
(2) If you were a regular patron of the “Best Fish House” on MLK in ESL, be of good cheer: That might have been the truth about the fish, but evidently cocaine was also on the menu. Then again, why wouldn’t it be? The proprietor/drug peddler has Federal drug convictions and Federal prison time in his past. He will soon and again be a fish.
