CB> I think this hits one major part of the effort to discredit 
CB> education, to  
CB> educate minorities worries certain groups in both our countries
    Face the facts.
    Black high-school graduation rates have increased substantially since 
1960 to the point they approach the white rate.
    What has happened, though, is that the academic problems of young blacks 
are heavily self-made.  At the University of North Carolina (our state's 
flagship state university), a militant black student paper which regularly 
called the school racist itself admitted that when it said that black 
students had to do their part by attending class.  (Black undergrads at UNC 
were notorious for chronic attendance problems.)
CB>  RL> Asian Americans. Many believe that denying blacks 
CB>  RL> an even break is a major purpose of standardized" 
CB>  RL> testing.)
    You cite this post, apparently agreeing with it at least partially.
    But "denying blacks access" was clearly not the reason the SAT was 
introduced because when the SAT was first introduced, _many_ prestigious 
colleges simply did not accept blacks regardless of test scores.
    
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