However, it is also true, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, that test score gaps between 12th-grade blacks and whites with highly educated parents -- parents with 16 or more years of schooling -- are greater than test score gaps between 12th-grade blacks and whites whose parents have less education.
But while the Institute ranks the car as a "top safety pick" based on its performance in front- and side-impact tests, it gave the 2012 Mercedes C-Class a "poor" grade in the new small-overlap test.