Thomas Sowell: Statistics on school discipline are used to perpetrate a big hoax

By Thomas Sowell

Published: Thursday, March 15 2012 12:00 a.m. MDT

Summary

There have been many frauds of historic proportions — for example, the financial pyramid scheme for which Charles Ponzi was sent to prison in the 1920s, and for which Franklin D. Roosevelt was praised in the 1930s, when he called it Social Security. In our own times, Bernie Madoff's hoax has made headlines.

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Nate

Pleasant Grove, UT

Thomas Sowell's gift is his ability to cut through the static and reveal the essential.

"Make no mistake about it, the black students who go to school to get an education are the main victims of the classroom disrupters whom Duncan and More..

8:27 a.m. March 15, 2012
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Midvaliean

MIDVALE, UT

Statistical information is invaluable. Its also so easily twisted. Its too bad that those who conduct statistical studies are not held to the same ethical guidelines as doctors. As we spend so much capital on the basis of these studies.

8:45 a.m. March 15, 2012
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