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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.

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