Today's NY Times on the Gifted and Talented programs
Today’s New York Times has a long critical article about the racially discriminatory effect of NYC’s gifted and talented admissions policies, a system that was imposed by Joel Klein in 2007. Some things that stand out inthis piece:
- "Despite months of repeated requests, the city's Education Department would not provide racial breakdowns of gifted and talented programs and the schools that house them.” So much for DOE transparency! But why didn’t the Times FOIL this data, and if refused, sue them? If the New York Times, with all its resources, fails to take aggressive action to demand information, what hope is there for the rest of us?
- This quote from a teacher is outrageous, and should be roundly denounced: “Ms. Lindner, the fifth-grade teacher, said she was "always surprised" when she saw more than two or three white children in her