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   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.   
      
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