WaPo: Area Schools' Success Obscures Lingering Racial SAT Gap

WaPo had a front page Monday article on racial differences being obscured in overall results particularly related to SAT scores. We see the same thing in NAEP. Oh Simpson't Paradox... :-)

Area Schools' Success Obscures Lingering Racial SAT Gap
By Daniel de ViseWashington Post Staff WriterMonday, September 10, 2007; A01

SAT scores at the Washington region's top high schools show an achievement gap between blacks and the rest of the student population -- a gap that is often masked by the overall performance of the schools.

White students in the spring graduating class of Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda -- the top performer in Montgomery County -- averaged 1893 out of a possible 2400 points on the SAT. The 13 black students tested averaged 1578, more than 300 points lower.

At Yorktown, Arlington County's leader, white students averaged 1804 on the SAT; black students averaged 1470. Black students at Severna Park High, the top performer in Anne Arundel County, averaged 1336, while white students' average was 1646.


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