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Our focus is Separate BUT UNEQUAL Public Schools and "The Obama Education Plan: An Education Week Guide by Education Week" (available from your local library or from Amazon.com for $14.95 (used $7.83) + shipping) and actions/decisions being taken by Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

We anticipate re-directing our six-degrees-of-separation e-mail campaign of last January from President Obama to Secretary Duncan who has an unheard-of $5 billion in the proposed budget over which he has 100% discretion and so far the Administration has been ignoring the only factor that can transform single-digit inner-city high-school graduation rates to 65%-70%!!! The budget will be approved in the next few weeks and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do something significant vis-à-vis educating inner-city kids effectively will be lost!!!
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SHORT QUIZ - SEPARATE BUT UNEQUAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND THE ADMINISTRATION'S "BLIND SPOT" TOWARD THE ONLY FACTOR THAT TRANSFORMS (vs. merely nudging) H.S. GRADUATION RATES

1. Do inner-city children, according to "identical twin studies," have the same intelligence as suburban children?

2. How do genetics and environment affect IQ?

3. Can IQ be increased? What would the average person in 1917 score on today's IQ tests?

4. Can the number of brain cells be increased? Or is the "conventional wisdom" from when we were young correct that their number is limited and will even be reduced by, for example, drinking alcohol?

5. What is the typical environment facing an inner-city child?

6. What is the typical H.S. graduation rate and why do official statistics grossly understate the problem?

7. What is the only factor that consistently transforms inner-city H.S. graduation rates from single digits to 65%-70%?

8. Does this factor have the potential to transform inner-city H.S. graduation rates from single digits to 90%?

9. How many "I Have A Dream" programs were there in the Chicago area?

10. Why don't President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan seem to be aware of the "I Have A Dream" record in Chicago?

11. What can we do to help President Obama and Secretary Duncan to avoid "missing the boat" on what appears to be a "chance of a lifetime" to do something significant about inner-city education?

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