text: So she is suggesting that minorities are not intelligent enough to grasp math? Isn't that racist to suggest that?
  Problem solving 101 tells us to get to the root cause of the problem. Something that might point us in the right direction is a recent study that reveals that urban public school systems are graduating students with an average 8th grade reading proficiency and 4TH GRADE math skills. 
  Hmmm. could that be somewhere near the root of the problem?