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 I'm the PP you quoted, and population heterogeneity is not in question according to the data education scientists have amassed and analyzed. Even when they only focus on the wealthy white students in the most affluent school districts, the US STILL lags behind. We're not even talking about Anacostia schools here - because they would be on par with South Sudan, practically.

The biggest hurdle to overcome is surely that the average American doesn't even realize US standards have fallen so far behind, AND doesn't recognize where the problem lies. Please note that Education quality can change very quickly, in a decade, for example. America used to be on top, back in the day when Finland used to be a poor nation of uneducated people, in the 50s. Now [b]Finland is on top of of the world[/b], with any type of test you can throw at its students, AND they don't force their students to study for longer hours than the typical American child is awake for, like in South Korea.

We need to pull our head out of the sand and observe what other nations are doing, and [b]humbly learn from them[/b].

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I did not realize that Finland, Poland, and South Korea were economic superpowers. :roll: 
 Perhaps you should not be so quick to listen to educational "experts" who compare school systems without factoring in the considerable differences between nations that make them what they are.

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