Not true that urban schools fail all students: Intown white high school students outperform suburban counterparts. | Get Schooled

Not true that urban schools fail all students: Intown white high school students outperform suburban counterparts. | Get Schooled:

Not true that urban schools fail all students: Intown white high school students outperform suburban counterparts.

by Maureen Downey

A Midtown reader sent me an interesting analysis of Georgia SAT scores, similar to one that I ran a few years ago, showing that white students in metro schools outperform suburban counterparts.  Except he went a bit deeper.
Here is why he compiled the data and what he hopes we learn from it:

Since my analysis has some newer data and focuses on specific schools, people might still be