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<p>That assumption is not necessary… What they can see is that as of now, that there is a significant (statistically) difference in educational achievement in different races. The idea is that they want to raise educational achievement over all races. For instance, it would not be acceptable if White graduation rates skyrocketed and every other race’s fell. Dividing it up by socioeconomic status does not help much, as there is generally no need to increase graduation rates among the wealthy and middle class. The only useful distinction you could make is raising graduation rates among the working class and among the poor. </p>
<p>I understand the knee-jerk reaction of “They said something about race and numbers - It must be racist” but I can’t possibly see how that’s going on here.</p>