Culture Explains Asians’ Educational Success at New York’s elite public high schools

from Wall Street Journal article
https://247sports.com/college/texas-tech/Board/102960/Contents/Culture-Explains-Asians-Educational-Success-130573622/

excerpt:

Culture Explains Asians’ Educational Success
Black enrollment at New York’s elite public high schools was far higher in the 1930s than today.

By Jason L. Riley
March 26, 2019 6:45 p.m. ET

Students at Stuyvesant High School in New York, Sept. 9, 2015.
Students at Stuyvesant High School in New York, Sept. 9, 2015. Photo: Mark Lennihan/Associated Press

New York City’s most selective public high schools released demographic data last week on students who were offered admission to the 2019 fall freshman class. The results were as predictable as the subsequent griping.

These eight schools admit kids based on a single standardized exam, and again Asian students, who comprise only 16.1% of the city’s public school system, were awarded a majority of the openings, 51.1%. By comparison, whites, who are 15% of public-school students, and blacks, who are 26%, were offered 28.5% and 4% of the seats, respectively. At Stuyvesant High, the most selective school, a mere seven of the 895 seats were offered to black students. In recent years, Asians who attend Stuyvesant and the city’s other two super-elite high schools, Bronx Science and Brooklyn Tech, have regularly outnumbered their white peers by 2 to 1.

Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to scrap the admissions test to achieve more racial balance in the classroom. He has decried the outcomes as evidence of “massive segregation.” The Washington Post’s education writer likened the low black acceptance rates at New York’s top schools to the recently exposed college bribery scandal, calling it “an admissions scandal of a different sort.” Apparently, when black students demonstrate academic excellence, it’s celebrated. When Asian students do so, it’s scandalous. (continues at link above)