4The Daily Tar HeelThursday, SeDtember 1, 1983
Blacks' test scores rose relative to whites'
By JIM ZOOK
Staff Writer
After months of charges by education experts that American
education has hit mediocrity, a UNC professor has released a
study showing that something in education is on the rise.
Lyle V. Jones, professor and director of the psychology de
partment, presented a study to the annual convention of the
American Psychological Association on Monday which con
cluded that black students across the nation are gaining on white
students on standardized test scores.
Jones' study is based on information compiled over an 1 1-year
period by several national testing agencies, including the Na
tional Association for Educational Progress. Scores of students
tested between 1969 and 1980 were used for the study.
"Each year since 1969, the NAEP administered achievement
exercises to large samples of the nation's youth from all over the
country," Jones said. "They gave the same exercises to nine-year-olds
in '71, '75 and '80 to observe the change.
"We've gotten data like this and have been able to find an
average score for white kids," he said. "We found that over the
1 1-year period the black achievement levels have risen relative to
the whites."
One of the tests used in the study was the Scholastic Aptitude
Test, taken by high school seniors. Those white students who
took the SAT and were born in 1958 scored on the average 118
points better than their black peers.
But white students who were born in 1964, the age of students
who are currently college freshmen or sophomores, scored 100
points better on the average than did black students.
Jones said there are several reasons for the narrowing of the
gap.
"One hypothesis is that black children who've entered de
segregated schools, say in kindergarten or first grade, are bene
fitting quite a bit from their education, more than had been the
case when black students had entered all black schools," Jones
said.
Another reason may be that blacks now have more reason to
do well in school, he said.
"I suspect that the incentive to do better jn school is greater
than it was 20 years ago," Jones said. "Twenty years ago, it
tended not to make much difference to a black person's career
choice whether he did well in education. They had limited
opportunities."
President's liaison on women's issues resigns post
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON Dee Jepsen is plan
ning to resign her $52,517-a-year position
as President Reagan's liaison on women's
issues, an aide to her husband, Sen. Roger
Jepsen, R-Iowa, said Wednesday.
But spokesman Tom Lafferty denied
that Mrs. Jepsen's decision to leave the
White House Office of Public Liaison had
anything to do with mounting criticism of
the president by several women's groups.
"When Mrs. Jepsen accepted the job,
she said it would be for a short period,"
Laffery said. "It's never been a question
of 'if.' It's been a case of 'when. "
A White House spokeswoman said Mrs.
Jepsen was tied up in a meeting and could
not immediately answer a reporter's ques
tions. On Tuesday, however, Mrs. Jepsen was
quoted as saying she would have an an
nouncement on the matter "very shortly."
In an interview with the Cedar Rapids
(Iowa) Gazette, Mrs. Jepsen insisted that
her job has "not been downgraded" and
that "no one has tried to muscle me out"
in the wake of fierce criticism of Reagan's
policies on such issues as the Equal Rights
Amendment.
Lafferty said he wasn't certain when
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House job. Nor was he sure whether she
would return to her previous position as an
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But Lafferty did say that Mrs. Jepsen
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wine in North Carolina. An easier-to-prove charge
driving while impaired will go into effect, as will more
severe punishments for driving while impaired, loaning an
ID and underage drinking.
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Chesca Varcoe, freshman from London: "Coming
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Ray Wallington, freshman computer science major,
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they even have to have a law against it. Accident statistics
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Annis Taylor, sophomore business major, Durham"I
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from getting beer and crack down on drunk driving laws.
It will just make it safer to everyone involved."
Lynne Gerber, assistant dean of the UNC School of
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younger people but for everybody. I don't think age
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Marymelda Hill, freshman journalism major from
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