The Decline of the World's IQ

Lindsay, Constance A., and Cassandra M. Hart. "Race-Matching Effect Largest for Black Male Students." EducationNext.

In one article it informs that “Whiteness” corresponds with intelligence, and giftedness. This is apparent in not only high school, but elementary as well. White teachers also rated black students as have less scholastic aptitude and Asian students as having more scholastic aptitude than white students. Relative to white students taught by white teachers, black students have twenty three percent lower odds of being rated as using good grammar, and similar differences exist for white teachers’ views of black 10th graders’ abilities to clearly organize ideas in their English classes or level of difficulty with their math classes. When assessing Asian students, white teachers’ reports suggest they have better grammar, have better conceptual organization, and are less prone to fall behind compared to white students (McGrady and Reynolds,

As the graph above displays, students in the United States have made notable gains in academic achievement over the past 45 years. However, the racial achievement gap remains due to not

One of the main purposes of the eugenics movement was to attempt to control the level of intelligence in the human race. This is not completely possible, however, as all genes are linked to other genes, and intelligence is affected by many more than just the one gene (Agar, 2006). In contrast to Galton’s theory, intelligence is not actually completely hereditary. Between 47 and 58% of intelligence lies in DNA, and the rest is based on environmental factors (Steen, 1996). Many types of intelligence tests have been created to measure the level of intelligence in humans. Defining intelligence in itself is a difficult task, as there are

Differences have been observed in mean IQ levels for racial/ethnic groups, as measured by intelligence tests

The achievement gap between minorities and Whites has been enormous for multiple decades in the United States. In the past, discrimination played a huge factor in why minorities had lower educational success.

In IQ Study Finds Class Effect by Rick Weiss, he discusses why poor children, and especially black poor children, score lower on average than their middle-income and white counterparts on performance tests. Studies have repeatedly found that genes, not environment, explain most of the differences in IQ among individuals. However, a new study of the interaction among genes, environment and IQ finds that the influence of genes on intelligence is dependent on class.

Personally, I don’t believe race affects someone’s intelligence. A color doesn’t define how smart you are. We encounter people everyday of different races. Stereotypes tend to point towards certain races being smarter than others. People think whites are more intelligent than african americans. People think asians are smarter than every race. The people who put more work into education are the ones who end up smarter. Stereotypes have caused many people not to try. If people don’t think they are going to succeed, then why should they show them anything different? I found this article to be both interesting and informative.

Not only does race play apart in education but

of the claim in “The Bell Curve” that low IQ is a key explanatory factor

In today’s modern world, recent scientific research has been conducted, which reveals that world-wide IQ test scores have risen, and continue to rise every year. In Alison Gopnik’s article, “Smarter Every Year? Mystery of the Rising IQs,” she discussed how these recent scientific discoveries relate to our society throughout the last century. It is evident that in our society a person’s level of intelligence is extremely important in our culture which is obsessed with being knowledgeable. In her article, Gopnik addresses the historical evidence that supports the conclusion that people are getting smarter as the years go on because of today’s society. Gopnik effectively explains the fact that people’s IQs are rising every year, by using the results of scientific research to support her point, and by explaining theories which state how the world’s social and economic environment are significant factors towards a person’s level of intelligence.

A main question in this journal article is if “children of different racial back grounds attend different schools” (author). Even after the desegregation act after the court case Brown v. Board of Education, children are still widely segregated. Most of the children who get left behind are minorities, and because of segregation they get put into inferior schools compared to their white counter parts who get put into better schools. This article is about finding why minority children are left behind by a system that is supposed to be helping them to become equal. The researchers in this article search for schools that minorities are attending and try to find out why they are being left behind. The act, No Child Left Behind (NCLB) allows researchers to find schools that are heavily segregated. They research the reason why there is a difference in test scores of white and minority children. They then try to find the reason behind such differences by seeing what kind of schools these children are going to and how the schools characteristics are linked to the children’s performance. In their studies they have found that more white children preformed at or above the national level in academics. With this study, researchers are looking into the

In this generation, the people in urban areas are more likely intelligence than the people from rural areas. The rural areas are not as develop as the urban areas. As the people in rural areas are not as progress as the urban areas, they make less money than the people in urban areas. So, most likely intelligence peoples are moving toward to urban areas. People are moving from rural areas to urban areas to get better technology, education, and careers.

Reference: Robinson, K. (2010). Black-White inequality in reading and math across K-12 schooling: A synthetic cohort perspective. Review of Black Political Economy, 37, 263-273.

Is ethnicity a component of intelligence. There are many theories on how a person’s race affects their intelligence, like how a genetic factor can influence them or how a social or cultural ethnic background can sway how a person thinks that may not be to the standards of thea dominant ethnicity. That the people who measure the test do not measure the different kinds of intelligence that is valued by that ethnicity maycan be a contributor for the stereotype of ignorance for certain people. The propinquity of race and intelligence has been in dispute since there was a upwelling of intelligence tests, racial prejudice, social and economic status, and genetic variation.