[MD] Imaginings

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Arlo] > ...schools in Tokyo less diverse than the > schools in, say, rural Oklahoma? 
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Bad sampling.  You need to compare schools in cosmopolitan Tokyo 
to a cosmopolitan American city & in rural Oklahoma to rural Japan. 
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[Arlo] 
> [School District] (SC) is very diverse, (BE) is 
> nearly exclusively "white", mostly all rural, and nearly 100% 
> Christian. SC consistently fares better, among the top, while 
> BE fares much worse. 
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Again, bad statistics.  In order to be legitimate, you need  to 
compare a diverse school district with bottom -up control with 
one with top-down control & a non-diverse school district with bottom-up control with one with top-down control. 






Craig