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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's a topic that should be addressed in your piece – SAT scores.  How does a selective admission school score below the national average on the SAT?

Below is data taken directly from the Banneker web site:
http://benjaminbanneker.k12.dc.us/about_bbahs.html

READING	
DCPS  473
Banneker  496
National  496

MATH
DCPS  466
Banneker  506
National  514

WRITING
DCPS  461
Banneker  486
National  488[/quote]

Those Banneker scores seem surprisingly low. If true, well, that answers the reporter's question.[/quote]

Apples to apples, statistics class anyone? The fact that Banneker is WAY above national black SATs and almost on par with all races nationally, is very compelling. This topic gets raised all the time and parents always site the SATs knowing damn well it's not apples to apples and there is an obvious racial gap when it comes to testing and Banneker does an excellent job bridging that gap.

National Black SATs 
Reading: 428
Math: 428
Writing: 417[/quote]

Interesting indeed, and IRRELEVANT to OP's question.

Why don't white students go to Banneker? Because their SAT scores are surprisingly low for a selective admission school, clearly lower than other alternatives white students have.

(I prefer to avoid race-specific thinking and metrics, but this is the only way to answer a race-specific question)[/quote]

How do you not get it? The black students at Banneker do better than DCPS and their black peers nationally (by a large margin). Logically speaking, there is no reason not to believe that your white student won't do better than his peers nationally. It doesn't answer OP's question but it certainly counters anyone's answer that SATs aren't up to par. [/quote]

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