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Article: Blacks' performances better on Scholastic Aptitude Test. (report by the College Board) (Brief Article)
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- Jet
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- September 13, 1993
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Black students are catching up with Whites on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and educators say the performance by the Class of '93 may signal the end of a testing slump that has lasted 25 years.
College-bound seniors scored an average 424 on the verbal part of the test, up a point from the average for the previous year's graduating class. The math average was 478, up two points, said officials at the College Board, a non-profit education group that sponsors the test.
It was the second straight year of SAT score ...