Sorting out the undesirables
12th July 2008
Steve Sailer takes a hard look at some recent trends in education … and politics.
One theory for why states and cities are raising their high school graduation requirements (Los Angeles now requires passing Algebra II to graduate) is that they are hoping to persuade their dumber students to move somewhere less demanding, and keep people with dumb kids from moving to the state in the first place.
The theory isn’t very plausible, however, because there’s little evidence that California’s politicians and educators are smart enough to understand it.