When pushed on why he supported Prop 16, which would have allowed affirmative action - that universities and government offices could factor in someone’s race, gender or ethnicity in making hiring, spending and admissions decisions - that failed to pass by CA voters (because it was seen as legalized racism), Newsom responds he doesn’t remember Prop 16 specifics, and when pressed by Charlie Kirk says he doesn’t remember and says he had low SAT scores as a ‘point of fact’ of not having a good memory. This is the CA Governor making executive decisions for millions of people.

“Give up the failed experiment of the last six years.” UC faculty in the humanities, social sciences, and professional schools are supporting their STEM colleagues with a new letter calling for a return to standardized tests in admissions.

Gifted and Talented, or G&T, programs have long been a perennial subject of debate, particularly in New York City, where it has bedeviled mayors for years. Some parents have already washed their hands of the whole G&T business, refusing to participate in what they view as a corrupt system of segregation. But countless others still place significant stock in the G&T designation and what it offers and are comfortable relying on cognitive testing, should it be required, to determine whether a child qualifies. “When your intelligence is the foundation of your self-perception, failing to achieve feels like soul death,” writes Katie Arnold-Ratliff. But if the limited amount of information we have about gifted kids long-term is any indication, most lead, at best, ordinary lives of modest accomplishment. A 35-year study of 677 gifted children found that by age 50, only 12.3 percent had reached a level of “eminence,” defined as “full professors … Fortune 500 executives … judges and lawyers, leaders in biomedicine, award-winning journalists and writers.” This means 88 percent never did. Arnold-Ratliff digs into the myth of the gifted child, and how our notions of intelligence may be inherently flawed: nymag.visitlink.me/9mc2Wh

International Man of Mystery Mike Myers enjoying the beautiful game in Toronto

Columbia University has reinstated standardized testing for admissions — the last Ivy League school to do it. “Through a multi-year faculty review, it was determined that test scores, among other factors, were a useful indicator of potential student success.”

Are they done counting yet?

Karmelo Anthony, a Black teenager, has been sentenced to 35 years in prison after being convicted by a jury with no Black jurors. Whatever one believes about the verdict itself, we cannot ignore the larger truth that many Americans are wrestling with: justice is still being administered through a system with a long history of racial disparity in sentencing and punishment. This requires more than reaction. It requires moral honesty about who is deemed dangerous, whose pain is centered, and how differently accountability has often been applied in America. If we want justice worthy of its name, it cannot be shaped by race. #KarmeloAnthony

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A Berkeley history professor said he’s gone from assigning 100 pages of reading per week to 35. Another “said the earliest version of the…course he taught required seven full books, while his most recent iteration exclusively consisted of excerpts.” “We are now reaching a crisis point where if the number (of pages) goes down further, it’s unclear to me whether my discipline of history can really be taught,” the first one said.

Long Beach School District (in CA) hosts a segregated "blacks-only" graduation:

1 dead and 1 sickened from a bacterial outbreak in Berkeley. "Both individuals lived together in a recreational vehicle in which they had been trapping, feeding and breeding wild rats. In addition, the vehicle was severely infested with wild rats that were not in cages." berkeleyca.gov/sites/default…

This is possibly the saddest thing I've seen in a long time..an immigrant nurse talking about fleeing her home..she saved her UNIFORM. So she could still WORK for our communities. I'd fill this country with a thousand of this woman than one of those good for nothing thugs. God help this poor woman.