U.S. math scores drop on major international test

Re:U.S. math scores drop on major international test by eitally on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @05:38PM (#42382436)

Fortunately for you, if you don't want to use race to distinguish you can instead use these characteristics to define your subgroups:

1) kids with two married parents at home

2) kids of parents with a college or professional degree

3) kids of parents who work white collar salaried jobs

4) kids of parents who are native English speakers

If you check all those boxes you're going to see that the resulting subgroup does very well on all standardized tests, including PISA. It will also be predominantly white/European-American & Asian/Asian-American. Those four attributes make the biggest difference in educational attainment, and brown & black families are the ones who are being left behind.

For the next thought exercise, consider what can be done to address this shortcoming in our political, social & education systems.

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Re:U.S. math scores drop on major international test by plaguuuuuu on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @06:17PM (#42382797)

Isn't this just delineating by wealth? i.e. race and/or those 4 other categories are just correlations.

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Re:U.S. math scores drop on major international test by lkbm on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @07:31PM (#42383337)

I'd be willing to bet most of these still hold once you control for wealth.

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