NY Times editorial about education

The NY Times Editorial Board decries the fact that adults in other countries have higher test scores than Americans.

They blame public education, but the problem is that liberals have all the wrong answers with respect to public education. There are two things that are holding us behind. One is that we have a dysgenic immigration policy, and this dates back to colonial times when a large number of immigrants were brought here not because they were expected to become intelligent and well-behaved citizens, but because greedy plantation owners wanted to use them as slave labor.

I bet that no country in the world does a better job than the United States at getting children with genetically low IQs to score higher than you’d expect on reading and math tests. Unfortunately, our education policy cares nothing for teaching children with genetically high IQs to their full potential. For example, many a Chinese immigrant has told me that the math we teach in college is the math they learned in high school back in China.

Liberals, who are obsessed with gaps, create education policy that purposely holds back smart children in order to lower the gap between the smart children and children from demographic groups that don’t do well on tests.

We also have a college admissions policy that elevates leadership and athletic ability over academic ability, which partially explains why Chinese students are learning calculus while American students are learning how to play better basketball, baseball and football. Of course, the college admissions policies are controlled by liberals. There are hardly any conservatives with any meaningful policy input at any of our top colleges and universities.