It's another of those "We did it! We're closing the racial gaps in academic achievement!" kind of thing.

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/09/closing-the-racial-achievement-gap-learning-from-floridas-reforms

This report by The Heritage Foundation asserts that Black and Hispanic students have been catching up with White students in scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The Hispanics, in particular, are said to have nearly closed the gap with Whites and that they are now out-doing the average of ALL students in 31 states.

Florida's Hispanics have supposedly become so smart that their average NAEP score beats the overall NAEP averages in WASHINGTON, OREGON, California, Nevada, IDAHO, UTAH, Arizona, New Mexico, WYOMING, SOUTH DAKOTA, NEBRASKA, Oklahoma, Texas, MINNESOTA, IOWA, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, WISCONSIN, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, WEST VIRGINIA, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, ALASKA, Hawaii, and RHODE ISLAND.

I've capitalized the names of the hard-to-believe-it states.

Does anyone know something I don't about these reported gains? Are they real? If not, how were they faked? With an average IQ of 93, you wouldn't think the spics would outdo the Idaho white kids whose average IQ is ten points higher.

I'm tempted to think that these reports of minority gains in Florida on the NAEP is equal to Atlanta Public Schools' illusory gains on the CRCT + 5 years − 4 degrees of latitude. Now that the egalitarian cheaters in Atlanta have been caught, the racial equality dog-and-pony show is moving somewhere else, and Florida wants to be its next showcase.

The Heritage Foundation report reads less like a scientific report than like an advertisement, or a sales pitch. It could be that someone wants to draw into Florida the kind of funding that Atlanta is getting, and the kind of multimillion dollar grants that Atlanta Public Schools were getting prior to 2009, when all the cheating was discovered there.