(1) Race differences in IQ (East Asians 105, Whites 100, Hispanics 90, Blacks 85) explain SAT gaps.
(2) Smarter people tend to earn more money and have smarter children than less intelligent people, so rich kids have higher average scores than poor ones.
(3) Men have a slight edge in math over women and a deficit in reading, reflected in SAT scores.
I now await the bus to the re-education camp.
I took the SATs in 1964 and still waiting for my white guy bump.
A high school teacher told me that if he praised the achievement of a black student, that student would get the cr*p beat out of him. Then, that student would turn into a non-achiever like all the rest. A very smart and accomplished black engineer from a poor background explained to me; “Accomplishment is seen as suckin’ up to da-man.”
Grade inflation in poor schools, I would guess.
Its simple - the worst schools also have the most prevalent grade-inflation. In our NE City here - a portion of the high school students are considered basically illiterate. How then did they get to High School?
The whole point of the SAT is to provide a STANDARD test for all students.
Why in the world would a college need tests scores and grades to determine admissions. Just ask race, sex, sexual orientation, religion. That should do it.
“In seeking academically engaged students, Mr. Soares said in an interview with The Choice, colleges should pay more attention to high school grades and give less credence to standardized test scores.”
My son just finished up his college applications. We’ve been to any number of presentations by highly-selective colleges. Interestingly, every single one of them said they already count GPA more than standardized test scores.
But what they’re looking for is high GPA, challenging course load within the context of an individual school, AND high test scores.
However, when asked, all said they’d be more likely to admit a student with an outstanding GPA (assuming the student took as challenging a course load as his/her high school offered) and somewhat less stellar test scores than someone with outstanding test scores and only a pretty good GPA.
The left is totally in love with the LIE that all people are equal. They MISapply the concept that all people are worthy of being considered human. Instead, they insist that all people be equal in the amount of money they have.
The left are thinly disguised enviers, full of jealously and greed. They destroy in their futile efforts to make equal that which CAN NOT be made equal.
Their false god is a lie.
Oh wait, this is already happening.
Your bus is outside waiting for you.
I have some issues with this study. The bit about lower-income kids having higher grades can also be due to grade inflation.
Further - what is the correlation to the lower-income groups success in College versus their grades, and versus their SAT scores? I think THAT is a mandatory part of the analysis that seems left out in this short article.
After all - the SAT bills itself as a predictor of success in college.
Finally - what percentage of the lower income kids have the foundation to go to college? Or are we going to continue to insist that the college re-educate the incoming freshman to all of the capabilities that they should have gotten from their K-12 education?
I imagine Wake Forrest is going to have a rude surprise.
These people are all insane! Water seems to favor white men too apparently. Dancing on the other hand, HATES US!!
Wake Forest.....what can you expect? Their fight song is an ode to drinking.
“Prior to joining the Wake Forest faculty, Soares taught as a lecturer at Harvard and was an assistant and associate professor of Sociology at Yale. In 2008, he was a member of the national education policy group for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.” From his WFU page.
And do you think for one moment Soares sought out his “research” with any other “conclusion” in mind? Of course not. He’s just another pointy-headed pseudo-intellectual who’s racial pandering gets his name in the spotlight and soothes his white guilt. Deep inside, I bet he’s as bigoted as anyone.
“Women and Minorities Hardest Hit”
Irony Alert.
It’s now Wake Forrest Gump University.
I’d wager there is a cultural element to the differences as well, insomuch as parents usually need to push their kids to study and take practice tests, then retake the tests to get a better score. If the parents aren’t involved, then the kids will not do these things, and their scores will suffer.
Plenty of good points on this thread, but keep in mind this big one.
Standardized tests exist to PREDICT future performance (like success in college). Bias can easily be discovered if it turns out that one group is OVER-performing compared to what their test scores would have predicted. (This requires an honest measure of the later performance being predicted).
If blacks were kicking academic butt in college beyond what their scores would suggest, then the tests are probably biased.
I’ve seen no evidence of this.