alt Hacker News> There is a big difference between different immigrant groups. In the U.S., children of immigrants are also often the lowest performers.
My comment did not preclude either of these from being true. I didn't say "On average, children of immigrants do better in the US." I said "often the highest performers are children of immigrants."
> But looking at test scores for hispanic students is a rough proxy because more than 60% of hispanic students are immigrants or the children of immigrants:
Looking at the test scores for Asians is also a rough proxy of children of immigrants, and you can see what your link shows: They are the lowest of all groups in being "below average", and the highest of all groups in the top category ("Advanced") - over double the next highest race in math, for example.
I expected better reasoning from you, given the whole "Asian and child of immigrants" ;-)
(As an aside, not sure how relevant your link is, given that it's from 2015, and the thread is about the shift from 2015 to now).
I guess I left out what I thought was a shared premise: immigration patterns in Europe are heavily skewed towards refugees and economic migrants. But yes you’re right that the kids of skilled immigrants can score very high (as you’d expect), I just think that’s not as relevant to Europe.