Re:SAT Scores Fall as More Students Take the Test
by swebs on Thursday September 26, 2019 @04:03PM
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>The same census also reports that about 74.1% of residents were of Chinese descent, 13.4% of Malay descent, 9.2% of Indian descent, and 3.3% of other (including Eurasian) descent
That's extremely different than the US.
Re:SAT Scores Fall as More Students Take the Test
by BeetleB on Thursday September 26, 2019 @04:26PM
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Different in terms of the ethnicities involved, but not in terms of the distribution:
72.4% White, 16.3% Hispanic, 12.6% African American, 4.8% Asian
Re:SAT Scores Fall as More Students Take the Test
by esyir on Friday September 27, 2019 @03:00AM
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Honestly, I'd say that a good chunk of that is culture. Singapore has an insane focus of education, with enormous amounts of spending on supplementary education and such.
In the US, the Asian "tiger mom" is seen as an odd peculiarity. That alone speaks volumes.
That sounds like a cherry picked criterion to make a point.
In any case, looking at GDP per capita, Singapore is similar to the US, and also similar in terms of racial/ethnic diversity. Yet Singapore (as a whole) tops your rankings, and the US as a whole is way down in the list.