Originally Posted by blackcat
I also wonder how many Asian students take Alegebra II courses, trigonometry, etc. or if a good percentage of them (the ones under a certain IQ) get tracked into manual labor type courses. If it is just the more intelligent kids taking math, then of course it would make sense to tell them they need to work harder and also that they get "results" from those students.

Here is data from New York City:

http://edfundersresearch.albatrossdemos.com/sites/edfundersresearch.com/files/EdFunders%20Paper%20%232.pdf
THE EXPERIENCES OF ONE NEW YORK CITY HIGH SCHOOL COHORT:
OPPORTUNITIES, SUCCESSES, AND CHALLENGES
Douglas Ready, Thomas Hatch, Miya Warner & Elizabeth Chu
Teachers College, Columbia University
October 8th, 2013
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Figure 4 displays (unadjusted) average progress through the math pipeline for students differentiated by their background characteristics. We find substantial racial/ethnic disparities in math coursetaking. The average Asian student completed the first semester of pre-calculus and the average white student progressed through both semesters of algebra II/trigonometry. By contrast, the average black or Hispanic student only completed the second semester of geometry.