The commission appointed by the governor is again going to release its recommendations on closing the educational achievement gap and guess what? They will recommend vast expenditures of funds and will criticize the educational establishment for failing to achieve this noble goal. And what is likely to be the result; in ten years the situation will be worse and we will then appoint another commission to reexamine the issue.
There are two fundamental facts which are ignored in these studies and yet they both fundamentally impact the results. The most important predictor of IQ in society is choice of mate and the second predictor of IQ is the educational achievement of the parents. In a meritocracy IQ is the most important indicator of success, whether in school or the workplace. If we normalize the achievement gap to measured IQ we find the gap disappears!!! Parents instinctively know this and generally use school choice as prime criteria for home selection
What we are trying to change is inherent in the very nature of the society we have chosen to live in. The overwhelming failure of Marxist ideology in modern society is further proof of this insanity. We cannot dictate any desired outcome no matter how noble the outcome would appear to be.
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