The problem is American parents. You see Asian kids excelling even in poor school environments, and those Asian kids going to college and being productive. American parents are lazy and self centered.
You tell 'em, scat. The only way to solve this problem of parasites is to chop at the root of the problem. Good for us that root is well understood: http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/09/27/zelizer.economic.insecurity/index.html?hpt=T2
The "study" this came from is yet another example of flawed liberal thinking and propaganda: http://www.ironshrink.com/articles09.php?artID=100409_liberals_more_intelligent_than_conservatives Exactly what we'd expect from hermit.
Is that anything like the email floating around a few years ago that claimed blue state residents were more intelligent? Of course that one turned out to be more lying propaganda from the left.
Could be right, couldn't it? After all, colleges these days are also (or perhaps, PRIMARILY) Leftist propaganda machines.