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>You cannot conclude that USA has excellent educational system if it delivers the great outcomes for certain advantaged subgroups.

If group B has characteristics that make education more difficult relative to group A (e.g. lower mean IQ), then if there are two countries with identical educations systems, the one with more students of group B will end up with worse educational outcomes, just because group B are harder to educate regardless of the system.




Sure, but that's a lot of "if"s, which are not applicable to USA vs most of other developed countries situation.




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