A Georgia Tech researcher asks: Where are the black students in science, math?

Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | 9:43 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16, 2013 | Kamau Bobb

[Pan_Yan]

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71 percent of the 2,500 black students in APS who took the Mathematics II exam in 2011, failed and only 1 percent, 25 students, passed with distinction (Pass Plus). By contrast, only 21 percent of white students failed with 79 percent passing and 23 percent of those passing with distinction.

In Fulton County, where 62 percent of black students failed the Mathematics II exam, 90 percent of the white students passed, 32 percent with distinction. The failure rates and achievement gaps throughout most of the school districts in the metro-Atlanta area are astonishing.

The consequence of this reality is that black students are excluded from much of the STEM conversation and are nearly entirely excluded from the higher level STEM education discourse. For the incoming 2013 freshman class of first time full time freshmen at Georgia Tech, for example, there were only 61 applicants from the entire Atlanta Public School system, nearly 2,500 seniors. Of those 61 applicants, 26 were admitted and 15 have enrolled.

Despite APS being 79 percent black students, only 28 percent, or 17 applicants, of the total applicants from APS were black. Of those 17 applicants, only 1 black freshman was admitted.

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[publius911]

Yes - it pretty much explains everything. They even suggested possible solutions. In return for their troubles they were lynched by the media.

The media was only the messenger. The lynching was orchestrated, financed and promoted by the education-National bureaucratic unions complex.

A huge disproportionate number belonging to those two unions, which are the members of that particular subcultural failure. The subculture whose name must never be mentioned.

[SauronOfMordor]

SAT scores track household income. High SAT parents tend to have high income, and their genes get passed down to their kids.

One exception, in The Bell Curve, was that even high-income black parents had kids with SAT scores below white average, indicating the role played by affirmative action on black income.

[SuziQ]

I've seen t-shirts that say, M.I.T.: The Georgia Tech of the North.

HAH! Love that! It will drive the MA snobs crazy!