<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/800a2706-18c4-4576-bc51-319b774763b3/46A1B2B8-5B29-4ECF-8BF1-0407CF75EF2F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sat-scores-and-family-income/" href="http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sat-scores-and-family-income/" style="font-size: 11px;">economix.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sat-scores-and-family-income/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/economix.blogs.nytimes.com/img/209A9A47-EA7E-4613-9298-38FBA6CA40A5" alt="SAT reading scores by income" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sat-scores-and-family-income/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/economix.blogs.nytimes.com/img/EA8118D4-ED7E-4DC3-AB16-06A1602E6591" alt="SAT math scores by income" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sat-scores-and-family-income/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/economix.blogs.nytimes.com/img/3A403E75-5DB5-4B89-864F-5250DECF1F2F" alt="SAT writing scores by income" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sat-scores-and-family-income/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/economix.blogs.nytimes.com/img/E5FD386C-54EA-4C6C-A8DB-BCB6E24B0490" alt="SAT scores by income class" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sat-scores-and-family-income/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">There’s a very strong positive correlation between income and test scores. (For the math geeks out there, the R<SUP>2</SUP> for each test <EM>average</EM>/income range chart is about 0.95.) </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sat-scores-and-family-income/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">On every test section, moving up an income category was associated with an average score boost of over 12 points.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sat-scores-and-family-income/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Moving from the second-highest income group and the highest income group seemed to show the biggest score boost. However, keep in mind the top income category is uncapped, so it includes a much broader spectrum of families by wealth. </LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/46A1B2B8-5B29-4ECF-8BF1-0407CF75EF2F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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