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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The performance gap between white and black students on standardized tests exists whether low income or high income....why is that? Researchers who have studied the issue can’t point to an answer. [/quote]

link?

what is your theory? 
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Eh....it’s either a cultural issue (e.g. no emphasis on the importance of education in the household) or innate intelligence.....either way it’s a big challenge.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.brookings.edu/research/race-gaps-in-sat-scores-highlight-inequality-and-hinder-upward-mobility/amp/[/quote]

This article says data is limited. Another source that actually supports your claim? 
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Are you unfamiliar with google?  There are literally thousands of articles on the subject.  And it’s not a claim, it’s a fact.[/quote]

Then it should be easy for you to substantiate your claim.

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Lol.....it’s not my job to educate those that are too stupid and/or lazy to do a simple search on the web.[/quote]

Either you can substantiate YOUR CLAIM or you can't. The one link you've provided so far says that data is limited and doesn't support your claim.

Put up or shut up.

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You’re a bit of a bore but fine.....

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/09/27/scores-new-sat-show-large-gaps-race-and-ethnicity[/quote]
Yes, and this ^^^ is why race-based AA was started. Use your noggins, people! Blacks and Latinos score significantly worse than whites and Asians, and thus AA was introduced to offset what would naturally occur if  across-the-board admissions standards were applied equally using traditional metrics: Significantly fewer blacks and Latinos would get accepted to college (and grad school), relative to whites and Asians. Isn't that why you all are clamoring for race-based AA? Because you know without it, blacks and Latinos would have a much harder time getting into college.

Why does anyone doubt this? There have been several data posted - including how much worse black students accepted to med school score relative to whites - and liberals still refuse to admit that that "under-represented minorities" have been under-represented because their grades and scores fall below those of whites and Asians. (And Jews.) The only arguments revolve around:

-  WHY these groups continue to score so much worse. I recall one chart that showed that white students from a families earning less than $50k had higher SAT scores than lack kids from $200k families, so money alone can't explain it.

- How many generations should we continue to give preferential treatment to lower-scoring kids based on skin color.

Perhaps we could give advantage to kids from poor zip codes - both inner-city black and rural white - to make up for their poor educational environment. That would seem fair.

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Or we could focus on improving the educational resources of low income students regardless of race.  But that won’t do anything to address the underlying discrepancy in test scores as they are a proxy for IQ.[/quote]

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