High performing school do not train fluid intelligence significantly

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Wikipedia article about fluid and crystallized intelligence.

This is huge. This article is basically saying that top school is mostly training their students to regurgitate the knowledge they crammed into them and thereby increasing their working memory capabilities. The implication is: Kids of average intelligence can be made academically successful through rigorous training (and a host of other implications).