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To: Think4Yourself who wrote (203175)	5/20/2009 10:09:35 AM
From: John Chen	Respond to of 306849

" the public school kids score higher on the standardized tests than the private school kids." More than likely, these kids ( with higher scores ) will be debt-slave to those in private schools.

To: Think4Yourself who wrote (203175)	5/20/2009 5:05:31 PM
From: energyplay	Respond to of 306849

Almost every kid ( > 90%) in private school will take the SAT. Public schools have lower participation rates, maybe 60%. Some states aloow kids to drop out at age 16, before they would take the SAT. Schools where the SAT is used a measure (instead of statewide achievement tests) have been know to discourage low performers from taking the SAT. So this 'cooks' the SAT scores at public schools. A more subtle point, the SAT is designed to predict college performance, not to measure how much a student knows. Test changes and revisions are based on tracking undergraduate grades and then adjusting the test to maximize predicitive value.