The recent fall in test scores is a rich-world phenomenon, and steeper in several European countries than in America, so it cannot be blamed on American policy.

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• The selection signal on the genetics of schooling is not a European artefact: the same variants predict years of school in China, a population disconnected from Europe for the whole period. DRDavid Reich8 May 2026Europeeducation
• America is a vastly richer country than Europe DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson9 Dec 2025EuropeAmerica
• American overregulation and labor-market rigidity make elevators far more common in Europe than in the US. JBJosh Barro28 Jun 2026EuropeAmerica
• Americans are largely unaware that they are ruled by people who are obsessed with Europe. NSNoah Smith18 Oct 2026EuropeAmerica
• Americans have listened too long to European culture, and the American spirit is suspected of being timid and imitative RERalph Waldo Emerson31 Aug 1837EuropeAmerica

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