Interested in looking at SAT statistics comparing the performance of Black and White students in Georgia, I downloaded the latest SAT data from the Georgia Department of Education. Presumably, these are scores from the summer of 2010. The data contains average performance by student demographic group instead of individual student scores which would be preferable. Overall, of the 399 schools reporting, 213 schools had enough students in both Black and White demographic groups to allow comparison. Of the 213 schools, White students performed better than Black students in all 213 schools. This means that there is no single school in Georgia with comparable numbers of Black and White students in which Black students outperform White students on the SAT. After 100 years of public education and over 50 years of desegregation, we still face very real problems of educational segregation. Interestingly, the Brown v. Board of Education decision on May 17, 1954, declared "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." The latest SAT data in Georgia suggests that combined educational facilities remain inherently unequal.
Data were downloaded from:
http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/ReportingFW.aspx?PageReq=102&StateId=ALL&T=1&FY=2010
The specific file downloaded was "SAT.xls" on 1/2/2011. According to the website, the file was last updated on 1/28/2011.
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