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Conservative-led red states outperform their progressive counterparts in achieving educational equality between black and white Americans, according to a new study from Wallethub.
The study, “2023’s Best States for Racial Equality in Education,” revealed the top ten states include New Mexico, Wyoming, West Virginia, Oregon, Vermont, Hawaii, Kentucky, Texas, Arizona and Oklahoma. The study did not include Washington, DC
The study’s methodology was conducted by comparing the gap between white and black Americans with a bachelor’s degree and a high school diploma, and the disparity in standardized test results.
Massachusets, New Jersey, South Carolina, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, New York, Connecticut, Minnesota, and Wisconsin (in descending order) ranked as the lowest ten states.
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It’s important to note that states with smaller black populations can have more volatile outcomes in terms of equality and inequality. In the top ten, Kentucky, Texas, Arizona, and Oklahoma were the only states with black populations greater than 5%.
However, every state that ranks in the bottom ten has a black population greater than 5%.
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“The gaps they measure are between black and white outcomes, and the states with the smallest gaps also seem to be listed with a relatively small proportion of the black population,” Dr. Shaun M. Dougherty, an associate professor of Public Policy & Education at Vanderbilt University, told Fox News Digital.
He continued, “Red states like Mississippi, Ohio, Alabama don’t do very well, while red states like Wyoming have hardly any black residents and score well in this case — as do Vermont, Maine, and New Mexico, all of which have very small proportions of black residents.” inhabitants.”
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The top ten states with the highest black population, in ascending order of their ranking in the study, were Mississippi (#19), Louisiana (#33), Georgia (#15), Maryland (#35), Delaware (#12 ), Alabama (#18), South Carolina (#43), and North Carolina (#29).
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“From my point of view, the interesting cases are states like Delaware and Arkansas where there are relatively large black populations and better performance on these metrics,” Dougherty said.
“My fundamental concern with these rankings is that most of the emphasis is on differences in performance by race, rather than levels, which are also important. Small differences in a state with poorer performance for everyone is fair but not desirable.”
