You have to consider things as a population.
As a population, socio-economics are a far greater indicator than race.
Children of wealthy blacks consistently test higher than children of poor whites. This has more to do with parental involvement than money, of course. Race still fails as an indicator.
The Black-White Test Score Gap
great link! Matthew- go read it before you finish reading my comment
go on now, read it.
uncensored, I didnt see any claim that children of wealthy blacks outscore kids of poor white, although it was certainly implied. I love the fact that the liberal egalitarian sector is actually admitting to many of the hard facts that realists have been pointing out for decades, even if they mix up cause and correlation, primary factors with secondary ones, and equalize groups by removing conditions that are the result of the very thing they are looking to measure.
to the claim that poor white kids are outscored by rich black children- SAT scores for whites from families in the lowest SES catagory were higher than black kids from all catagories except the very highest, over 200,000 (in much older dollars). as well California school districts show that whites from families that qualify for free lunches outperform blacks from families that do not. one dataset has lower numbers but more discrimination into defined groups, the other has millions of data points but less distinction between groups.
while there are many things in your link that are worth discussion, the one point that I have discussed here before is the finding that mixed race children seem to test higher (at least as children) if the mother is white. the simplist explanation is that white mothers tend to be better at parenting, which would seem to present white culture as more invested in promoting activities that foster intellectual development.
is there any particular area that you would like to discuss in more detail?
