StanfordHarvardYale wrote: "I'm glad there is a blog about this but I'm still waiting for more candid coverage of the race issue."

In order to actually be candid about the race issue regarding education, the first step is to acknowledge the reality of race/ethnicity based differences in IQ-type intelligence. Secondly one has to realize that IQ is mainly passed through the generations via GENETIC transmission and NOT via the home environment (reading to children, books in the home, playing classical music etc.). Thus if a meritocratic society selects for higher class people based on credentials that require higher IQ (e.g. graduate and professional degrees), and if IQ is mainly genetically transmitted, it then is obvious that higher class people will tend to have higher IQ children.

Basically in terms of socioeconomic class, the children (like Barack Obama) of parents with graduate and professional degrees will tend to have higher IQ than average and will tend to do well in academic achievement. In terms of race/ethnicity, high-IQ groups include: Jews (115), Chinese (110), Koreans(110), Japanese (110), and high caste Indians (108). These groups will be admitted in very high proportions to elite colleges, graduate schools, and professional schools because they tend to be significantly smarter than gentile whites (98). In parentheses are approximate average IQ values (with a white population average IQ = 100 and 15 points equals one standard deviation).

Similarly, the children of high school dropout parents will tend to have lower IQ than average and will tend to do poorly in academic achievement. In terms of race/ethnicity, low-IQ groups include Blacks (85), Hispanics (88), and American Indians (88). These groups will often fail in academic endeavors and be admitted in very high proportions to wellfare programs, homeless shelters, and prisons because they tend to be significantly dumber than whites (100).