my thoughts are that what they are doing is not working
i infer your thoughts to be that its pointless to do anything because black people are stupid and inferior, a position with which i disagree because there are other data, treatments, and analyses of measurement error that contradict that position
I bet if you adopted all the dumb kids
gave them a better home
gave them a better life
they would all be just as smart as you are (or think you are)
The Inheritance of Education - Marginal REVOLUTION
Economix posted a graph showing a strong positive correlation between SAT score and parental income. Greg Mankiw pointed out that the effect is unlikely to be purely causal because there may be an omitted variable bias, IQ for example. Paul Krugman and Matt Yglesias both attack Mankiw and point to graphs showing that income matters for college completion and enrollment, respectively, holding various achievement scores constant. Brad DeLong crunches the numbers on IQ and income correlation to estimate that half the effect is due to IQ and half to something else.
All this is good but none if it gets at the heart of the matter because there are a lot of way that heredity/genes could explain the income/education correlation; IQ is only one possible mechanism, personality (e.g. conscientiousness) is another possibility.
The type of evidence that we need to resolve this question is adoption studies. Fortunately, such studies have been done and indeed I have presented the data before in my post Nature, Nurture and Income. Let's do so again.
wait, wait, the lie detectors have proven that is also a lie
that also didn't fix the problems
but thanks for playing
better luck next time
grab your prize on way out (dumber society that you created)