Marktwain says:
• He prides himself as strong on education. Yet, for 19 years he served as both a legislator and governor in the city of St. Paul, where current student proficiencies in math (46 percent), reading (51 percent), and science (21 percent) are among the lowest in the state.
But St. Paul is a highly black, Latino and immigrant city, all of which strongly negatively correlate with academic achievement. Also, when people discuss Asians as “the model minority” they are not talking about the Hmong, who were a pre-literate tribe before coming to America and having a written language invented for them in the 1960s by a British ethnographer.
Given this I’m not surprised the test scores aren’t as high as other parts of the state or nation.
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
Race and ethnicityAccording to the 2006-2008 American Community Survey, the racial composition was as follows:
White: 66.7% (Non-Hispanic Whites: 61.6%)
Black or African American: 13.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native: 0.8%
Asian: 12.4%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander: 0.0%
Some other race: 2.9%
Two or more races: 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino (of any race): 8.9%
The largest Asian ancestries in St. Paul are as follows:
“Other Asian”: 10.1% (mostly Hmong)
Asian Indian: 0.6%
Korean: 0.6%
Vietnamese: 0.6%
Chinese: 0.3%
Filipino: 0.1%
Japanese: 0.1%
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