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Mar 14 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
“Summing up: Black and Hispanic 11th graders in SF score about the same as or lower than the typical 5th graders who took the same math test. …The situation is appalling.”

The experiment is a total failure. We must return to tracking. tomloveless.com/posts/san-fran…
“… a comprehensive tracking program that establ a separate classroom in every school for the top‐performing students could significantly boost the performance of the most talented students in even the poorest neighborhoods,..”

@DOEChancellor Bring back tracking to all schools.
I cohosted educators who spoke to the research and classroom realities of why ability grouping works.

placenyc.org/2020/11/22/the…

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Mar 11
Our leaders are irresponsible to push vaccines on children. We now have data that protection drops to 12% for 11yo in less than 2-months.

Even claims that vax lowers hosp is weak --"But because few children were hospitalized, these estimates have wide margins of error.
The FDA has not grant full-approval of the vax for anyone under 16yo; it's been nearly a yr under EUA.

It is scary that our govt is pushing an experimental vaccine that the govt (aka FDA) won't fully-approve.
Timeline of Pfizer Covid Vaccine:
Dec 2020 - EUA for 16+
May 2021 - EUA for 12-15
Aug 2021 - FDA approval for 16yo+
Oct 2021 - EUA for 5-11
Feb 2022 - FDA postpone EUA for under 5yo

FDA still has not approved use in under 16yo and has delayed EUA for toddlers.
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Dec 23, 2021
This is terrible. The Asian community did not ask for this. We strongly opposed it but our electeds and gov chose to ignore us. I’m no longer checking any boxes.
Instead of just Asian, there will be 24+ separate categories asked by all state agencies that collects demographics. Just visualize the form. It’s obscene!
All SUNY and CUNY applications will have the 24+ categories. Here is what a CUNY app looks like now. Imagine this w/ 24+ categories. Instead of “too many Asians”, it’ll be “too many Chinese and Bangladeshi students”.
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Jan 1, 2021
Curious why NYC Chancellor, head of the largest school system in the country, was not even mentioned among contenders for the nation's top ed job.
reuters.com/article/us-usa…
A simple google search to Wikipedia shows this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A…
Gosh, Biden probably didn't want this headache.
A look back at 2020 with @NYCMayor and @DOEChancellor at the helm of NYC public schools. We started the year off w/angry parents at a Queens town hall.
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Dec 31, 2020
“… newly released statistics from the US Dept of Labor for the third quarter of 2020 undermine this narrative. Asian women have now surpassed white men in weekly earnings...These outcomes cannot exist in a society suffused with misogyny and racism.” quillette.com/2020/12/22/a-p… Image
The attack on merit in education, seeking to kill objective tests like the SAT and #SHSAT in favor of subjective holistic factors, are intended to hurt immigrants. Image
"Asian women’s extraordinarily high earnings can be explained by several recorded cultural patterns. They have the highest education levels of all major groups. They are also most likely to major in the most high-paying fields in college (primarily STEM) ..." Image
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Oct 27, 2020
The argument in NYC’s specialized HS was on a single test #SHSAT. However the attacks on all the other schools around the country made it crystal clear that it was never about a single test. 1/
The single test has been used since the 1930s. It was used when Hecht Calandra was past in 1971. The largest of the 3 HS was majority black and Hispanic for over two decades using this single test. This single test was never a problem until Asians became majority. 2/
With immigration picking up in the 1970s, poor, non-Engl speaking Asian students became a growing group relying on public schools. To escape the zip code of their immig communities, they aspired for these #SHSAT schools. 3/
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Oct 27, 2020
“...White supremacy! How!? ... Asian students are double the population of white students, how is that white supremacy? Simple, Asians are white-adjacent.” asian-dawn.com/2020/10/26/bla…
Many Asians are immigrants, finding our way in a new country with no social capital. We simply ask for equal opportunity. Anti-Asian racism has intensified in education. Merit-based admissions have given Asian students the chance to earn spots at these top schools. 1/
The high number of Asian students at these public HS has become unacceptable. Something “must” be wrong if outcomes don’t mirror the population. “Asian immigrant supremacy”? — no, we are now called white-adjacent so that the claim of white supremacy can still be touted. 2/
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