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John McWhorter – Maintaining Standards in Standardized Testing

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i came from a very artificial environment. That's called the book lined middle class home. And i think that that's been explained by various studies about how language is used. Any time you read language inorality and literacy, you know instantly why people from some worlds are better at standardizd tests than others. But i you can't say that sort of thing in public without being called a reverse racis something is wrong. It needed to be seen how uncomprehending that kind of hinking is. The culture third rail of a social inequality discussion,. You can't make cultural arguments a, things have to be structural or it's no go. If blackness has some meaning

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