Yes, but us universities aren’t financially accessible to most people and access depends more on connections and families than merit.

But your link also is only relevant to the university system.

It doesn’t change the fact that the non university part of education is severely financially crippled in major areas of the country in order to hinder black people from getting proper education.

Combined with a burnout introducing system of standardized tests the us educational system is truly world leading. At demonstrating how NOT to do education.

And yet my American ex-GF that went to one of these top universities with very good grades when she came to Barcelona to do a masters (in a lowly Spanish university) she was so far behind in knowledge compared to her peers she had to do a lot of work just to catch up.

I'm pretty sure most of these are just politics being played.