70 Year Magazine Archive

Aim Higher

by Barbara Lerner

Recent history shows that black students’ test scores can be raised—if we set mandatory standards.

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HERE, in a paragraph, is the picture of black America that emerges from Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray’s The Bell Curve:

As a group, black Americans are much less intelligent than white Americans. Their test scores—IQ, SAT, you name it—are about one standard

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