fw from Mr Effect himself:

Sensible stuff you are sending me but it is not true that blacks have
failed to close the IQ gap over the last generation.  They should read
Chapter 3 of my recent "Where have all the liberals gone? Race, class, and
ideals in America"

- Jim Flynn


>  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/education/29scores.html
>
>  April 29, 2009
>
>  Persistent Racial Gap Seen in Students' Test Scores
>
>  By SAM DILLON
>
>
>  The achievement gap between white and minority students has not
>  narrowed in recent years, despite the focus of the No Child Left
>  Behind law on improving the scores of blacks and Hispanics, according
>  to results of a federal test considered to be the nation's best
>  measure of long-term trends in math and reading proficiency.
>
>  Between 2004 and last year, scores for young minority students
>  increased, but so did those of white students, leaving the
>  achievement gap stubbornly wide, despite President George W. Bush's
>  frequent assertions that the No Child law was having a dramatic
>  effect.
>
>