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""Murray and Magnets""

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Does Los Angeles have any equivalent to New York's competitive-admissions high schools? While the vast majority of NYC high schools are dreary places, there are a handful of schools that admit students via competitive examination, accepting only a very small percentage of applicants - Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech, and I think a couple others. They're among the top-rated high schools, public or private, in the country.

Peter
Iron Rails & Iron Weights

1/22/07, 6:23 AM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

Dear Peter: Not really. There are a few "Highly Gifted Magnets" that require very high scores on the Wechsler IV IQ test, but nothing much like the famous NYC schools, or like Boston Latin. Whitney in Cerritos is the closest thing in Southern California to a NYC competitive exam science school.

1/22/07, 7:02 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve,

What about parochial schools in LA? Are they good? Granted, we probably have a higher percentage of English-speaking Catholics here in New Jersey, but even a few non-Catholics have been known to enroll their kids in parochial schools here (if they can't the real estate in good public school districts or private school tuition).

Dave

1/22/07, 8:36 AM

Anonymous jody said...

i had a mexican girlfriend and her sister's kids in LA were afraid to go to school. she drove them across town everyday so they could go to less dangerous school. they got bullied at school. they were half mexican and half black. they looked brazilian.

dealing with that family introduced me to mexifornia.

1/22/07, 8:51 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jody,

Did they look like these Brazilians? Not all Brazilians are mulatto.

Dave

1/22/07, 11:25 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Or this Brazilian. 100% German.

1/22/07, 12:11 PM

Anonymous Ade said...

Maybe Ezra Klein believes everyone can have above average intelligence....

Even if we accept that the average person is a lot smarter than a century ago (hard to believe, I know), intelligence/education in the marketplace is akin to what economist Fred Hirsch called a positional good, i.e., one whose value is primarily relative to social status.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positional_good

1/22/07, 2:42 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I keep thinking that universal access to the internet will eventually make kids much smarter if they can just LEARN TO READ. Just about every kid ever born is nosy about the world around them. If I'd had the internet when I was a lad, I'd have spent hundreds and hundreds of hours just looking up (googling, wikipedia-ing) and question I had about any particular person, place, or thing, or ideology that caught my attention that day. Perhaps nosy kids, even poor ones, can get smarter at night so they can "act cool" all day in class?

God, lets hope so anyway.

1/22/07, 5:23 PM

Anonymous meep said...

I made a comment on Murray's last piece, of the three column series, here:
http://meep.livejournal.com/1479634.html

I don't talk in terms of IQ, but the point is that there are kids smarter than the other kids, and everybody knows it. And thus something in particular needs to be done with/to those kids.

1/23/07, 3:58 AM

Anonymous albatross said...

I think most people are helped by the internet, in the sense of being able to do more mental work. But smarter people probably benefit more. Look at a tool like Excel, or even a Basic or Python interpreter. It makes more possible for most people, but the most smart and talented people who learn the tool will be able to do things that the others can barely dream of.

1/24/07, 3:02 PM

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