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The Puerto Rican NAEP scores in 8th grade math are 91% Below Basic 9% Basic 0% (rounds to zero) Proficient 0% Advanced
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What makes you think this has something to do with schools? Might just be less capable population
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Students in PR (only 9% reach Basic) do much worse than Hispanic students in 50 states (57% at Basic or higher) on NAEP test.
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Maybe PR Hispanics are less intelligent than other Hispanic ethnicities? There's a lot if variation between the white ethnic groups; why not with other races.
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I looked up the numbers — no, they’re basically the same on average. https://twitter.com/udeplorableiv/status/1041293537856376832?s=21 …
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There is a peer effect. Presence of higher scoring peers may be boosting the performance of inland Hispanics?
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Whatever is causing the total breakdown of standards, discipline, bureaucratic efficiency, etc. I would not say that it’s reducible to peer effects.
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It’s also affecting whoever’s responsible for keeping the lights on, afterall.
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Mainland: -Mediocre teachers & bad students On PR: -Bad teachers, bad students,& prob higher absenteeism Also, more motivated & ambitious fraction of PR folk leave the island. Docile cohort stay behind
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You know as well as anyone that it's the schools that are bad. It's the students
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57% of Hispanics in US 8th grade math NAEP test score Basic or above vs only 9% in Puerto Rico. Puerto Ricans in US are probably below US Hispanic average, but still ... schools have to be awful to get scores that low. PR spends more per student than Utah and Idaho.
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But who's running said schools? Now, there's no sin in not being a genius, and there might be room for improvement, but the available evidence suggests the brain drain is such that PR who stay in the island need a lot of assistance. How do mainland PRs do?
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Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico have IQs between 84 and 89 depending upon the study. They’ve gotten better scores since the 70’s as conditions improved and Spanish language IQ tests got better. SD size was also a lot larger in older studies (SD of 22) — so higher scores prob right.
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Recent larger-scale studies seem to show ~87-89 with a more normal SD ~15. In that light it’s probably right to say that Puerto Ricans clock in at around 87-89IQ. Normal US Hispanic scores.
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Average IQs for US blacks are two or three points lower than the average IQs for Puerto Ricans. You’d expect that the Puerto Ricans would have around a ~.2SD+ edge in the academic tests as a result of their slightly higher IQ — but this does not seem to be the case.
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My guess is that there’s probably less work getting done in the PR schools than the average school attended by a US black. Or that US blacks are taking their tests more seriously. Or the worst US blacks are leaving the testing pool at higher rates... Probably all of the above.
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My guess is that just like Puerto Ricans have had worse access to electricity (even during 2016) than US blacks they also have worse access to suitable educational environments (and the institutions which remove the worst students from the classroom/testing pools).
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One wonders if what little accountability exists on mainland is totally absent on PR. Maybe its near total chaos w/ core material not taught, & zero accountability
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@Enopoletus even worse than the extremely low scores in Mexican schools. The education system works as well as the utilities.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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