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Unfortunately, socioeconomic status doesn't work. Poor white kids, for example, have this bad habit of out-scoring black children from the highest income bracke
by schoper 14y ago
Unfortunately, socioeconomic status doesn't work. Poor white kids, for example, have this bad habit of out-scoring black children from the highest income brackets on the SATs.
This is the same reason that AA-preferences in college admissions use race instead of SES.
- tedivm 14y agoThat's an interesting comment. I would be interested in seeing a source for that information, as opposed to just taking it at face value.
- hammock 14y agoHere is one example, from the California Department of Education: http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&tbo=d&biw=1280&bih=657&tbm=isch&tbnid=UzNsFy3V9tzlLM:&imgrefurl=http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/04/03/steming-the-minority-gap/&docid=37ve0tStuaFtZM&imgurl=http://toped.svefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Achieve-RaceIncomeLPFIstudy032812.png&w=968&h=458&ei=V5uiUPC8I6mEygGV0IC4Dw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=211&vpy=173&dur=590&hovh=154&hovw=327&tx=231&ty=170&sig=108167084116963101507&page=1&tbnh=133&tbnw=282&start=0&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0,i:75 http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&...
- jessriedel 14y ago> Poor white kids, for example, have this bad habit of out-scoring black children from the highest income brackets on the SATs Wow, I didn't believe this until I looked it up. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2999198 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2999198 > In 1997, black students from families with incomes between $80,000 and $100,000 did in fact score lower on the SAT test than did students from white families with income less than $10,000.