‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ in education is a con

By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER

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And you just know, at a visceral level, that a large part of that administrative growth is related to the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (“DEI”) movement. I was unsuccessful in finding an article about this growth (admittedly, I didn’t invest too much time in the search) but I did discover that, if you type “Diversity Equity Inclusion College” in your search engine, you’ll discover that every college, large and small, well-known or unknown, in every corner of America, now has a DEI department.

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Also, as we’ve seen for the last year and more, DEI, which is a variation of Critical Race Theory, has been incorporated into most primary and secondary schools across America. The assumption on the left is that the whole DEI and CRT shtick will improve academics for minorities because it will validate them while invalidating the awful Whites and Asians who are stealing all the good grades with their racist habits of ambition, punctuality, reliability, hard work, etc. (And no, that’s not a joke. It’s a publication from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture.)

However, an article at ersity-equity-and-inclusion-does-it-help.php”>Jay Greene and James Paul:

The analyses presented here suggest that the existence of CDOs in school districts may actually exacerbate achievement gaps. In other words, CDOs may be implementing counterproductive educational interventions.

A simple comparison of achievement gaps in districts with and without CDOs shows that gaps are larger in districts that employ CDOs. In districts without a CDO, the average black student is 1.9 grade levels behind the average white student on standardized test results. In districts with CDOs, the achievement gap is half a grade level larger, with the average black student being 2.4 grade levels behind the average white student.

Moreover, further analysis revealed that this wasn’t simply a case of CDOs being put into poorly performing districts. No matter the district, CDOs are bad news for students.

Incidentally, regarding those allegedly “White” and “Asian” virtues, I highly recommend Thomas Sowell’s Black Rednecks & White Liberals. In it, he makes the case that the irresponsible culture that characterizes so many inner-city Blacks is not authentically Black culture. Instead, it is the authentically Scots-Irish culture that gave parts of the South a bad name from America’s first colonists up until after WWII, when Southerners, embarrassed by the Civil Rights movement, deliberately abandoned it and began to economically.

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