Talk:Education in Florida

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[edit] Florida underscores other states remark

I don't know how to say this, so let me try it here first since it sounds controversial if you hadn't heard it before. White students tend to score roughly the same on standardized tests throughout the United States. Black students also score similarly to each other but lower. If this holds true throughout the US, and it does generally, states with the highest percentage of black students, such as the southern states, will inevitably score lower than the northern states. See for example, http://www.vermonttiger.com/content/2007/10/the-real-story-.html which may not be sufficiently scholarly in itself, but points to supporting data (for Vermont which appeared to score well compared to the Florida, for example).

Before getting too upset, please read the rueful http://www.jstor.org/pss/2962819. None of this is really new. But presenting Florida as a bad case is just plain ignorant or deliberately perverse. Student7 (talk) 01:56, 31 May 2008 (UTC)