Talk:Math–verbal achievement gap

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 * No point including "Figure 1" in the graphic itself - if it's needed, it can be added in the textual caption

A few issues.
While this is a very good article from a comprehensive perspective on the topic, that perspective was assembled by mostly Rothstein and Lech as referenced in this article and there should be a refutation section and more references to other literature in this page to make it better. 66.68.146.188 (talk) 05:12, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Ugly Plot
Its two lines on a XY plot. The wild 3D effects simply make the plot hard to read. Could someone replot the data? Thanks.DavidRF (talk) 20:34, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Under "Increasing Asian student population in the United States"
While the explanation here isn't necessarily incorrect, it lacks clarification. It needs to be mentioned that Asian exchange students score higher in math because, unlike an English test, it is formatted in a way that they are very familiar with... or that math programs in many Asian countries are much stronger than that of the U.S. The way the article stands now simply implies that Asians are good a math, a heavy-handed and heavily biased assumption.

In fact, this part of the article could be removed altogether and the information moved under the header "English Language Learners." The main reason exchange students tend to do much better on standardized math tests over English language tests is--arguably--that math is a sort of universal "language" that remains unchanged across the globe.