You overstate your case again. US students of Asian origin slightly underperform Asia in math (but outperform all non-Asian nations). Also, US students of European origin outperform all but 6 countries with similar demographics.
The other participant did not verify that it was caused by school underperformance, merely that I misread the numbers. The correction puts Asian Americans at #5 in the world rather than #4. It does not change the fact that Asian Americans are still 32 points higher than the first non-Asian nation (Hungarians). Nor does it change the fact that European Americans are #1 among European nations + Anglosphere.
Incidentally, any claims one makes to the inherent superiority of Asian education systems must be limited to math and science. Asian Americans are #1 in combined literacy (#2 if you consider Shanghai as a separate group), and European Americans are #2 among primarily European-descended nations.
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You overstate your case again. US students of Asian origin slightly underperform Asia in math (but outperform all non-Asian nations). Also, US students of European origin outperform all but 6 countries with similar demographics.
The other participant did not verify that it was caused by school underperformance, merely that I misread the numbers. The correction puts Asian Americans at #5 in the world rather than #4. It does not change the fact that Asian Americans are still 32 points higher than the first non-Asian nation (Hungarians). Nor does it change the fact that European Americans are #1 among European nations + Anglosphere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trends_in_International_Mathema...
Incidentally, any claims one makes to the inherent superiority of Asian education systems must be limited to math and science. Asian Americans are #1 in combined literacy (#2 if you consider Shanghai as a separate group), and European Americans are #2 among primarily European-descended nations.
(See tables R1 and R3. http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2011/2011004_1.pdf )
(As before, I'm only posting this so others are not misled by tokenadult's logical fallacies and intellectual dishonesty.)
Have these ethnicity-based differences within the US been constant over time?