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I know Sailer is racially obsessed and not a creditable source. That's an understatement. Links to his blog and other edits inspired by his blog have been a pl
by tokenadult 14y ago
I know Sailer is racially obsessed and not a creditable source.
That's an understatement. Links to his blog and other edits inspired by his blog have been a plague on Wikipedia for years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Race_and_intelligence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/...
Finland is officially bilingual. (The minority official language is Swedish, which is not even cognate with the Suomi language that is usually "Finnish" in English.) Because schools in Latin America, and particular in Mexico, are notoriously underperforming (the reason for that is the role of schoolteacher trade unions in national politics), it is not surprising that first-generation immigrants to the United States from the largest source country, Mexico, start out disadvantaged in school compared to native-born children from English-speaking families. But the latest PISA results look separately at the issue of how the surveyed OECD countries do in helping the least advantaged students in each country's school systems,
http://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisaproducts/pisa2009/48165173.pdf http://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisaproducts/pisa2009/48165173.pdf
and the United States is not a conspicuously strong performer by that standard, even though the United States has a level of public school spending.
http://www.oecd.org/pisa/49685503.pdf http://www.oecd.org/pisa/49685503.pdf
For more information on the "race" issue, see the user bibliography "Anthropology, human biology, and race citations"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/AnthropologyHumanBiologyRaceCitations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Anthropol...
which links to better sources than those considered by most Wikipedians so far.