The SAT’s Growing Gaps
The average score on the SAT remained steady for the class of 2008 — with the critical reading (502), mathematics (515) and writing (494) scores all unchanged from last year.
As is typically the case, the College Board said that the results were encouraging. “Student interest and participation in the SAT has grown to historic levels, and our outreach into minority, low-income and other underserved student groups is yielding tremendous results,” said Gaston Caperton, president of the board.
What College Board officials didn’t note, however, was that this year’s overall flat scores are the result of averaging out very different results for different ethnic and racial groups. Asian and white students saw their scores increase this year, by 5 and 4 points, respectively, across the three parts of the SAT. Score averages for minority groups other than Asians were down by 6 to 8 points across the three exams.
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The SAT’s Growing Gaps
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More evidence that blacks are closer to chimpanzees in intelligence than white people. They are animals, and science will prove that as a fact.
[...] The racial gap is growing on the SAT test, despite the untold billions that have been spent trying to close it. Just think of all the money we would have right now if we had listened to “racists” decades ago. [...]
I believe what is pulling up the scores of white students are the homeschoolers. The scores of whites left in the government schools are being pulled down by the Negroes. Imagine what the overall score of whites would be if they all were educated at home or at small, local white academies.