Perhaps you judged the author too quickly, she was trying to remind us how we are likely to underestimate heritability in the presence of environmental influences…

45 years later, and ALL the evidence stacks up on the side of Arthur Jensen. Since them all federal education efforts to “close the gap” has been funneled into as social science abyss of psuedo-science akin to devoting all efforts of NASA to antigravity research.

It is an abomination, and we get to reap the idiocracy that results.

However, this sort of madness is and opportunity for Neoreacitonary propaganda. Because there Red Pill solutions to education policy that could be sold to wishy-washy liberals.

Curriculum Reform. “Direct Instruction”, Developed by Zig Engelmann emphasizes spoon-feeding concepts in small chunks and assuring mastery with repetition and drill. Scripted lessons! Kids chanting in unison! Breaking down kids in a class into common skill levels, so instruction can be further tailored for their level of testing. They tested out it’s efficacy in Project Follow Through, a billion dollar Great Society study of the impacts of different curriculums. DI won by a landslide. There is even some evidence that DI can get ghetto hood rats to perform at an academic level equivalent to the white suburban schools at least through middle schools. But, even DI cannot close “the gap” – give kids the same DI curriculum, and hood rats may perform better, but the higher IQ kids will perform better too. The average performance can be raised, but “the gap” seems immutable. (Why haven’t you heard about this? Because DI beat all the ed. school ideas. So in the final analysis, the lumped all the different curriculums together, and said “gee, given all these kids and all these curriculums, there isn’t much difference from Project Follow Through kids versus everybody else. Nothing to see here, please move along.)

Vocational instruction: Northern European countries do this right, tracking the low-IQ kids into vocational and apprentice programs. If you don’t have a 105 IQ, you cannot get through college. Why waste the time of these kids putting them on the college prep track? They may well have mechanical, social, emotional, or physical skills that would serve them well if they were pushed in the right direction vocationally. That has got to be better than the current system, both for the people on the bottom of the bell curve and society at large.

Most people don’t give a rats ass about Monarchy vs Sovcorp vs Patchwork. Their kids education is a much different story. NRx as truth tellers with realistic and workable solutions may be better able to capture the attention of the politically passive.

I’m so sorry.

How does this end? When China calls in its credit markers and demands some sanity in its new assets in the Academy?