<p>Moving on to another measure of ability, effort and environment lets look at the AP test. Alaska:</p>
<p><a href="http://collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/exgrd_sum/2005.html%5B/url%5D">http://collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/exgrd_sum/2005.html</a> </p>
<pre><code> It is a lot easier for me to evaluate our state as there are far fewer test takers, and for one test, our high school was the only participant in the state.
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<p>Notice there is quite a large variation in scores by ethnicity. In our community the difference is much larger than state average. I do not claim to understand the reasons for this difference but should we as a society ignore the obvious or should we redouble our efforts to understand and minimize differences between all members of our society?</p>