THE NY TIMES MAGAZINE “idealab” suggests norming multiple variables instead of just race. If you’re going to do this sort of thing, adding other variables might be best so that kids don’t get stigmatized on such an obvious criteria like their racial background. But the thing that gets me is that the author feigns surprise that “children of parents who have graduate degrees outscore children with parents who didn’t finish high school by a staggering 272 points.” The article states that the author is “the Paterno Family professor of literature at Pennsylvania State University,” I wonder if it was just luck & hard work that got him through graduate school.
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