That is exactly my point. Our parent commenter was disputing the fact that the broad stripe of “immigrant” populations are responsible for our reduced and over all disappointing scores. My comment is meant to insinuate that the overly broad (and thereby meaningless) redirect to a vaguely monolithic “immigrant” population (one invariably implied to “not yet be assimilated!”) is exactly that - a redirect from the genuine problem group in this country (an unnervingly underperforming one), a group which is not comprised of immigrants.

Evidently “immigrants” is a popular term of convenience for all folks – left, right, and center.

Again, the numbers don't add up tho?

Maybe I'm reading the data wrong, but it seems to say that Pacific Islanders are the lowest performers, blacks the second lowest, and Hispanics the third lowest? Again, if I'm incorrect, please do correct me.

So I add up, say, Pacific Islander and Black population percentages, and it's maybe 16.5%. I mean, the weights... well put it this way, again, I could be wrong, but when I remove them from the data, I can see only one group that meets the target mark for being ready to learn more advanced concepts.

ETA:

- Misread charts initially and mistakenly said that two groups met the mark. Nope. Only one group met the mark. Point being, even if we drop Pacific Islanders and blacks from the numbers, the US wouldn't even make the top ten. We should be, at least in the top five in my opinion, but that's not happening right now. And that problem is occurring very much across the board. Again, someone correct me if I'm wrong.

- Also, not sure if it is well known or not, but the target TIMSS mark is 550 for being able to process next concepts.