Now, that's interesting to me. Princeton, NJ being the HQ of ETS, you could call it ground zero for the notion that mass standardized test results are meaningful. As you get farther and farther from that center, as American cultures and values become more and more different from those of NJ, I would expect the test scores to also come down a bit. It geography, we would talk about that in terms of core and periphery. Hmmm.
Which "American cultures and values"?
The ones derived from the French, the English, the Spanish, the Germans, or the Scotch-Irish?
I always like to point out that North America is Europe in a funhouse mirror.
