![]() ![]() Thus it happens that out of savages unable to count up to the number of their fingers, and speaking a language containing only nouns and verbs, arise at length our Newtons and Shakespeares.” Thus it happens that faculties, as of music, which scarcely exist in some inferior races, become congenital in superior ones. Thus it happens that the European inherits from twenty to thirty cubic inches more of brain than the Papuan. The effects of the most uniform and frequent of these experiences have been successively bequeathed, principal and interest, and have slowly mounted to that high intelligence which lies latent in the brain of the infant. … The human brain is the “organized register of infinitely numerous experiences received during the evolution of life, or rather during the evolution of that series of organisms through which the human organism has been reached. Spencer stands upon his own ground, invoking, instead of the experiences of the individual, the registered experiences of the race. “It is important to point out, though, that while this report shines a bright light on a striking correlation, it makes no claim as to causation.” On average across all races, students in progressive and conservative cities “have roughly the same proficiency rates,” but per-student “spending is actually much higher in most progressive cities with large gaps than in conservative cities with small or negligible gaps, so that doesn’t explain it either.” The biggest predictor for larger educational gaps was whether or not the city has a progressive population.” ![]() The results are “stable no matter how we looked at the data. There are many factors that contribute to student success, and while we could not control for all of them we did our best to consider the best explanations,” including “city size, racial demographics, spending, poverty or income inequality.” “We tried to explain it away, but we couldn’t. Three “of the 12 conservative cities-Virginia Beach, Anaheim, and Fort Worth-have effectively closed the gap in at least one of the academic categories we looked at, literally achieving a gap of zero or one.” Those cities happen to be conservative.” ![]() Racial “achievement gaps in our public education system are prevalent just about everywhere,” but the sizes of these gaps are “significantly larger” in progressive cities, and “there are U.S. ![]()
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