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Put a Black face in the White House, test scores go up. I guess we’ll be seeing a surge in Black Rhodes scholars if Obama was “fully Black”.

Study Sees an Obama Effect as Lifting Black Test-Takers
By SAM DILLON
nytimes.com

Educators and policy makers, including Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, have said in recent days that they hope President Obama’s example as a model student could inspire millions of American students, especially blacks, to higher academic performance.

Now researchers have documented what they call an Obama effect, showing that a performance gap between African-Americans and whites on a 20-question test administered before Mr. Obama’s nomination all but disappeared when the exam was administered after his acceptance speech and again after the presidential election.

The inspiring role model that Mr. Obama projected helped blacks overcome anxieties about racial stereotypes that had been shown, in earlier research, to lower the test-taking proficiency of African-Americans, the researchers conclude in a report summarizing their results. (more…)

So I guess all those non-profit organizations, parents who are involved with their children, millions upon millions of dollars that has been spent on programs, drives for Black male teachers, etc., etc. just wasn’t enough.

This study is nothing more than pop science that kicks dirt in the faces of all of those in the Black community who know and understand that our kids were not waiting for a Black President to do better in school.

Oh well! I guess we must forever keep him in office. After all, it’s for the kids.