<p>BigE96, I never said that there weren’t low income, high achieving whites (Which I suspect to be a fairly dominant group in the study I mentioned above.) I know there are low income, high achieivng students from every race but I want but as I said, I’m curious to know if the ethnic demographics of the students in the study reflects national ethnic demographics in terms of academic performance.</p>
<p>[NAEP</a> 2009 High School Transcript Study: Race/Ethnicity, Grade Point Average](<a href=“NAEP 2009 High School Transcript Study: Race/Ethnicity, Grade Point Average”>NAEP 2009 High School Transcript Study: Race/Ethnicity, Grade Point Average)
For example, Asians have the highest average GPA followed by whites, then Hispanics, then blacks. i am curious as to how this data relates to the students in teh study.</p>
<p>One curious thing about the nationsreportcard.gov link I posted and OhMomof2’s link. In 2000, 0.8% of blacks and 0.7% of whites were not proficient in English whereas 31.3% of Chinese were not proficient in English. Yet, the English GPA for Asians was highest which is ironic. Now, the two links do not give detail on performance of various ethnicites in narrower income ranges such as ($0-$40k).</p>