RL> Every U.S. racial group's SAT average increased between 1975 and 
 RL> 1992. The over-all average has declined because 
 RL> formerly low-scoring black, EIi Panic? and.native 
 RL> groups have been increasing their participation in 
 RL> the exams even faster than theirs cores have been 
 RL> gaining on white and Asian-American scores. 
 RL> Similarly, girls have increased their SAT 
 RL> participation faster than their scores have gained 
 RL> on male scores. (The SATs were drastically changed 
 RL> after their designers noticed, in 1992, that Asian-
 RL> American scores had overshot white scores and that 
 RL> black scores were rising three times as fast as 
 RL> white scores and slightly faster than those of 
 RL> Asian Americans. Many believe that denying blacks 
 RL> an even break is a major purpose of standardized" 
 RL> testing.)
I think this hits one major part of the effort to discredit education, to  
educate minorities worries certain groups in both our countries. I think that 
race equality is a big part of the fear that drives these people to do what 
they do.
--- Maximus 2.02
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