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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wealthy communities in America have children who spend millions of dollars prepping for SAT, millions of dollars for SAT tutors,  millions of dollars for SAT camps, millions of dollars on taking the PSAT and SAT multiple times before the 11 th grade, and millions of dollars for lawyers, psychologists and psychiatrists for the paperwork to get special privelages and accommodations when it comes to taking the SAT exam.  All these have an impact on SAT scores least of which is the educational advantages of high SES.

Poor communities do not have these opportunities since they can't afford them.

If you prepare extensively in this manner, take the SAT exam multiple times and get special accommodations to sit for these SAT exams; [b]the SAT scores will be higher and not lower[/b].  This is simple arithematic.  It is not complicated.  If a poor individual was only given the above, that SAT score will be higher -- independent of SES!!![/quote]

Hey Lucy, you moved the football. Nobody is disputing that SAT scores will increase with prep - by maybe 200 points.

But test prep can never explain the larger differences in SAT between rich and poor communities. Taking a kid from Ballou and merely giving him SAT test prep will [b]not [/b]raise his score from 1500 to 2300. The problem is deeper, and includes low expectations, lack of access to books throughout his life, and the years he spent at low-performing DCPS schools such as Ballou.[/quote]

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