Wrong End Of The Bell Curve

Charles Murray is at it again with another WSJ op-ed. Dead Reckoning does a good job of explaining why this argument misses the mark, too. Murray’s problem seems to be the old hammer > nail one.* He’s got this idea, and now he tries to apply it wherever he can, regardless of whether it fits or not. In this case, he misunderstands both a basic premise and method of today’s education reform movement. *To a hammer, everything looks like a nail.