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"Black American students have average literacy scores below students from Russia and Chile. U.S. Asian students, however, topped the global ranking, with White
by PKop 3y ago
"Black American students have average literacy scores below students from Russia and Chile.
U.S. Asian students, however, topped the global ranking, with White students not far behind" - Bloomberg [0][1]
In 1980, the US was ~80% non-Hispanic White. In 2020, it was ~58% [2]
[0] https://twitter.com/opinion/status/1282703557146419202 https://twitter.com/opinion/status/1282703557146419202
[1] https://archive.is/tzsAg https://archive.is/tzsAg
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Hispanic_whites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Hispanic_whites
- TMWNN 3y ago>"Black American students have average literacy scores below students from Russia and Chile. >U.S. Asian students, however, topped the global ranking, with White students not far behind" Americans do well on PISA compared to their ethnic relatives. <https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-new-2018-pisa-school-test-scores-usa-usa/ https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-new-2018-pisa-school-test-sco...> Asian Americans do better than Asians; whites do better than Europeans; Latinos do better than Latin Americans; and blacks do better than Africans. Hispanics and especially blacks' scores (as you note) drag the US average down. Both white and Asian Americans score higher than Canada (and white+Asian is essentially Canada's racial makeup), and higher than New Zealand, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Norway, and the UK; Estonia is below US Asians but above white Americans. Norway is by far the wealthiest Nordic state but its average is only two points higher than the US national average, despite not having a demographic that is 13% of the population and scores 85 points below the white American average.
- hilux 3y agoInteresting. There is a huge unanswered question about how the students were selected.