Data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which is based on a representative sample of all high school students, shows only a small difference in mean math performance between the sexes, he says. Therefore, if you look at just the SAT-takers, the boys at the bottom will have fallen out. This, of course, skews boys' average scores upward. Davison and several colleagues have also looked at math coursework in various ethnic groups. Blacks and whites take about the same amount of math, but whites tend to be in college-bound sequences while blacks turn up in noncollege consumer and business math sequences, he says.
Asian students take more math than either blacks or whites.
The liquor industry will be the next to be taken to court by states if U law professor Stephen Simon is right. Simon says there are parallels in the operation of the liquor and tobacco industries that would logically lead to litigation against the liquor industry. Like the tobacco industry, they want brand loyalty, and they have to get these kids drinking their beer as early as possible. The sorority has about 30 chapters nationwide while the fraternity has about 25 chapters. The missions of both groups are to create a bond among Latino students and to provide academic and community service enrichment to their members.