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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can we please let go of this storyline about white kids scoring high in DC, higher than the rest of the US?

If you compared them against similar SES in say, Greenwich, CT, or even (god forbid) Bethesda or Fairfax, I doubt they score higher in DC. You cannot lump people together by race, ignoring SES.

Just, can we please all let that go.[/quote]

That's a reasonable hypothesis, PP. With some work, it can be proven or refuted using NAEP results.  However, I think you would have to sign an agreement and get access to the raw data in order to do so.

Here's another hypothesis, also reasonable: The NAEP scores of white kids in DC are very impressive given that many of them live in two-income households earning civil servant, government contractor, non-profit, etc. salaries.

The benefit that these kids have is not so much family wealth or income, but rather family educational attainment.  These families are probably less wealthy than would be predicted by their educational attainment.  So, when we write about high SES families, do we mean family income, family wealth, or family educational attainment?[/quote]

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