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[Dr. Jai Maharaj]

An Updated List of Scandals
[David Leonhardt]

David Leonhardt FEB. 1, 2018


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Barbara Fitzgerald, pictured in 2014, resigned as President Trump’s
director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday.
Credit David Tulis/Associated Press

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The resignation of the director of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention only adds to a list of Trump administration scandals that has
already become terribly long.

This newsletter first published a list of those scandals last year, and my
colleague Ian Prasad Philbrick and I have updated it to include a few new
entries from this week. “There have been 4 new stories about Trump
administration self-dealing in the last day alone,” Jonathan Chait of New
York magazine tweeted yesterday. (Chait’s story is here.)

The C.D.C. director, Brenda Fitzgerald, quit after a damning exposé by
Politico’s Sarah Karlin-Smith and Brianna Ehley. They reported that
Fitzgerald had purchased shares in a tobacco company after taking charge
of the agency that discourages smoking.

Other revelations include conflicts of interest involving Ben Carson, the
secretary of housing and urban development (via The Washington Post); the
Trump family real-estate business (via The Palm Beach Post); and Trump’s
infrastructure advisers (via Democracy Forward Foundation).
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Lost Einsteins. I recently wrote about the problem of “lost Einsteins.”
The term refers to the recent finding that even highly talented low-income
children rarely become inventors or entrepreneurs. The problem affects
everyone, because these children don’t get the opportunity to grow up and
devise scientific breakthroughs or new products that would benefit
society.

A new report picks up on the theme and highlights one cause: Poor students
who excel in school are much less likely than affluent children to take
classes that challenge them.

According to the report, from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, only 6.1
percent of students in high-poverty schools are enrolled in so-called
gifted programs — which include everything from accelerated high-school
math classes to small groups for advanced elementary-school readers. By
comparison, 12.4 percent of students in low-poverty schools enter such
programs.

It’s clear that these gaps aren’t mostly about the students’ ability. Many
low-income children score high on standardized tests — and still don’t get
the education they deserve. My “lost Einsteins” column and the underlying
academic research have more details.

Not surprisingly, the problem is especially severe for black and Latino
children, according to the Fordham Institute report. Among the states with
the fewest black and Latino children in advanced classes (relative to
their white and Asian peers) are Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina,
Virginia, New Jersey and New York.

The rep