Practical human genetic alteration is coming closer to actual use. Intelligence is important and valuable to humans. Finding what genes, groups of genes, or interactions between genes, affects intelligence will be useful in enhancing intelligence and avoiding mental defects. If race correlates with intelligence after environmental affects are accounted for, then that provides some clues in the search for genetic intelligence enhancement.

Yes, race has been used by people to ameliorate their feelings of inferiority, and race has been used by people to gain destructive political power. That doesn't mean there's nothing of value to be learned by the study of race and intelligence.

Colleagues who decry Barr's fate worry that the incident could make other scientists think twice about coming to work for NSF.

Perhaps scientists should think twice about associating with terrorists.

They should amend the Constitution where the government cannot ask questions like that. It's not their business.

You can't be that stupid, it has to be deliberate malice.

Let me make the question a little clearer: "Have you ever belonged to an organization that is trying to kill me?"
According to you, that's none of my business.

Making sure teachers are well paid and have the resources they need is the way to improve education.

Up until students reach about 12 years of age the requirements for their teachers are pretty trivial; the supply of potential elementary school teachers far exceeds the demand. Hence fairly low pay,

Resources? Don't be funny. Keeping a schoolroom warm (or cool in Florida) costs more than a chalkboard and a couple of hundred public domain texts.

Common Core is a partnership of business and government, i.e. fascism. Regardless of its origin, for several years it has been pushed hard by the federal government onto the state governments and lower government levels. One hook being used is that implementing Common Core standards releases a state from the restrictions of Bush's terrible "No Child Left Behind" program.

CC is very deceptive. Read the promotional material, and it looks like a substantial improvement in public education. Get into the details or listen in a classroom, and understand where things used to be 50 years ago, and you'll see substantial degradation.

The actual details of CC are slippery. When something bad comes into widespread public recognition, it disappears and is replaced with something worse, all the while with the promoters saying "That's not in Common Core." When Common Core is widely despised in some region, turds like Mike Huckabee advocate changing the program's name without changing its content.

Want a conspiracy theory? Here's your conspiracy.