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Black schools do get the worst teachers and no supplies.  The entire point of the npr piece is that if there are not enough white kids in a school, the school will never get the kind of resources and quality teachers and attention it needs. [/quote]

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Why do black schools get worst resources? I'm sure they don't open a school with this in mind.  Because students fail, no one wants to invest into failure, waste resources.[/b]

I remember a story I read or heard about a program designed by Harvard educators where they took kids from impoverished neighborhood by lottery and put them through this rigourous program with best teachers.  The kids improved significantly. But only as long as they were in the program.  When they graduated and went to colleges most of them dropped out.[/quote]

wow to the first statement.  Your second example even shows these students wouldn't fail?  They don't get the resources because they are poor and black and there is no one to demand that they get the resources they deserve (and they don't have the political or social or cultural capital to successfully demand it themselves).

There is a lot of research to answer the second statement - stuff about lack of financial resources, lack of emotional support from overtaxed families, difficulty envisioning the path ahead because no one in their community ahs walked it; first generational college students face certain hardships whether they are black or white, and they are much less likely to finish no matter their ability  The reason these students drop out is not that they don't give a shit about education. [/quote]

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