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		_0nac on Dec 29, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What if Finland’s great teachers taught in U.S. sc... And by remarkable coincidence, Finland's GDP per capita is roughly equivalent to GDP per capita for white Americans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U... Maybe, just maybe, the differentiating factor is poverty, not race?

Melchizedek on Dec 29, 2014 [–]

No, white (and asian and jewish) students perform much better than for instance black students from equally wealthy families.

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