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History does show that preceding generations of students—from the Jews and Italians on the East Coast to the Chinese and Japanese on the West Coast—became bilingual through opposite policies: teaching exclusively in English in school and speaking their respective native tongues at home.

Sowell goes over the success that black schools had in producing a high quality member of society. These schools had average student IQ’s that matched or exceeded the general population. Sowell offers several explanations all cited by data. These schools all eventually declined and Sowell argues it was because a whole new set of policies.