One major problem with our education system is that we are trying to get the academic achievement of a sub-group which has a median IQ of 80 up to the same level as a sub-group with a median IQ of 105.
It's not going to happen. The only way to do it is to cripple the education of the white segment, which seems to be the approach being taken in our public schools.
We also have our teachers having the lowest SAT scores of any academic major. This needs to change.
Pretty much tells the story, doesn’t it?
Time to eliminate the NEA. A complete overhauling of the education system in this country is MANDATORY if we plan to remain where we are as a culture and a country, and even that won’t accomplish the deed until the family structure issues are resolved. Time to go back to the early days when school was really IMPORTANT. Look at the orientals if you want to see how important education is, they take it seriously unlike many American people.
For as long as they've been keeping these kinds of stats, on average white students have always outperformed black students by a wide margin. There is not one school district out of the many thousands of school districts in the U.S. where black students in a racially mixed school have outperformed or equaled the performance of white students. The chief reason: difference in IQs.
You'd think that after many decades of the same stats the people in charge would get a clue. Well, we know why they can't state the obvious...their careers (and maybe lives) would be ruined. I'll bet even many of the arch-liberal academics know the truth. But they have to lie to cover their rearends.
“Number of subjects per five-point interval”
The two curves look to have similar area not representing the proportionality of the two races, so the impact on national averages is not as profound as the graph conveys.
But your point about “trying to get” is certainly relevant; however, the effective PSE methods are unfortunately repressive by the way potential is dampened in the effort to close the gap — it’s easier to repress the higher achievers than it is to bend intellectual capacity upward — a methodology that ultimately benefits no one.