Sunday, August 20, 2006

Invisible Asians

Asian-Americans are invisible. We're not a minority group. At least not to the politically correct intellectual contortionists at the NYTimes. Insidious racism, rather than meritocratic testing, must be responsible for the alarming decline in the representation of (certain) ethnic groups in NYC's top high schools.

See earlier posts on how affirmative action hurts Asian-Americans (Asians have to score 50 points higher, on average, on the SAT than whites to gain admission to the same elite universities), and how the silicon valley counterpart to this NYC magnet school story is told in a less politically correct way by the WSJ.

Via GNXP:

The New York Times headline is: Minority Students Decline in Top New York Schools. The graphic? Here:


Is something off with this graphic in relation to the headline, or what? Ah, click the link in the story, and you see this:



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