Today, Huffpost's banner read 'American Exceptionalism: Test Scores Below Vietnam!' [1]
Vietnam first administered the international test in 2012.
Vietnam is mostly impoverished, and only a few decades back a US protectorate...which makes it all the more embarrassing that their children now score higher than ours in science and math.
Americans, however, should not be ashamed.
White Americans routinely score in the top 3 spots worldwide, surpassed only occasionally by Scandinavia and some Asian countries.
The reality is that as White Americans continue to make up less and less of the population of the country America's scores will continue to drop.
A likely scenario considering that White Americans under the age of 2 are already a minority among their peers.
Looking at the above map it is obvious that PISA scores roughly correlate with average IQ, and IQ is known to be 40 to 80% based on genetic inheritance. Whites and Asians have average IQs of 100 to 104 whereas Black Africans have IQs of only around 67. Hispanics around 89. [2]
The more Latinos and Blacks are allowed into America the lower American international test scores will drop.
No amount of funding can erase DNA. Educational opportunities can only make genetically predisposed populations perform better... they can not make those born unintelligent smart.
NOTES:
[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/03/us-test-scores_n_4374075.html
[2] http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1997mainstream.pdf
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