Major cause of inner city schools

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A news report states that minority children who take advanced mathematics courses in high school have a first-year GPA in college that is equivalent to white students. The newspaper columnist suggested that the lack of advanced mathematics courses in high school curriculums in inner city schools was a major cause of inner city schools having a low success rate in college. What confounding variables may be present that invalidate the columnist's conclusion?

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