Via my favorite libertarian jazz critic: Iowahawk grabs a Paul Krugman talking point and grinds it into a fine paste. One of those things that makes me think, “Dang, I wish I’d written that.”
Highlight:
White students in Texas perform better than white students in Wisconsin, black students in Texas perform better than black students in Wisconsin, Hispanic students in Texas perform better than Hispanic students in Wisconsin. In 18 separate ethnicity-controlled comparisons, the only one where Wisconsin students performed better than their peers in Texas was 4th grade science for Hispanic students (statistically insignificant), and this was reversed by 8th grade. Further, Texas students exceeded the national average for their ethnic cohort in all 18 comparisons; Wisconsinites were below the national average in 8, above average in 8.
Do read the whole thing.