Educational achievement gaps cannot be explained by discrimination alone.

Evidence

A study prepared for the Gemian police9 vividly documents the social gap between Germans, Turks, and other migrants . . In comparing the rates of television watching, use of video games, book reading, command of German, etc. the study reveals significant and striking differences between Germans and the Muslim and other immigrants. It makes clear that the gap in educational achievement cannot be explained solely as a function of consCious or unconscious discriminatory policies of German institutions. — Michael A. Reynolds and Thomas D. Grant, The Future of Europe and Its Muslims, 97

Categorization

• QUESTION: How would a study measuring institutional discrimination alongside behavioral and material variables actually separate the causal contributions? The German police study claims to, but the method for doing so is left unstated.
• SHARE: The specific study — commissioned by German police, comparing TV, video games, and book reading between German and Muslim households — would land with someone working on immigration integration policy.