Educational Limits

This little blog has often been critical of the educational establishment in the U.S. because it has failed so many of our students and yet is not willing to change its ways. There is an essay out today, however, by one of the most important social scientists of our era which must be considered and should temper criticism of teachers and their results. As Charles Murray points out 1/2 of all students in the U.S. are below average in intelligence and it is unreasonable to expect some student with a low I.Q. to perform at a level above that limitation. As he points out, however, it does absolutely no good to challenge the test since that won't change the fact that our student population will still fit into a bell-shaped curve with respect to intelligence. The problem comes when you start identifying the students in a given section of that curve. Read it all.