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V1.3 Case Page #14 (History-Imprint Exhibit)

Partitions of Poland (19th Century): Education Governance Imprints That Still Show Up in Test Scores (V1.3)

Case Claim (one-line)

Historical governance regimes can imprint education pipelines so strongly that modern student performance still differs across old borders: evidence from the 19th-century Partitions of Poland shows sizeable present-day test-score gaps aligned with former imperial administration. (ScienceDirect)

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1) Case Facts (dated, minimal)

  • Historical event: 19th-century Partitions of Poland created long-run administrative differences across regions governed by Austria, Prussia, and Russia. (ScienceDirect)
  • Measured modern effect: A regression discontinuity design finds student test scores significantly higher on the Austrian side of the former Austrian-Russian border (reported ~0.6 SD), despite modern similarities; no comparable difference is found across the Prussian-Russian border in that study. (ScienceDirect)

This is not a “war destroys schools” case. It is a system-imprint case: pipeline structure persists and affects outcomes across generations.

2) Mechanism (EduKateOS / CivOS lattice mapping)

Z0 — Skill-pocket stabilisation differs because the pipeline differs

Test-score gaps are downstream outcomes. The upstream cause is a difference in:

  • repetition density
  • verification standards
  • teacher supply and training
  • institutional continuity
  • household expectations shaped by system structure

Z0 signature: cohorts stabilise different pocket reliability distributions depending on the inherited pipeline.

Z1 — Household mentorship evolves under the pipeline’s rules

Over decades, households adapt to:

  • what schools demand
  • what credentials mean
  • what “success” reliably requires

Z1 signature: the pipeline shapes home buffering norms, which then reinforce the pipeline.

Z2 — Institutions carry historical memory through governance style

Different administrative regimes create different:

  • school governance
  • teacher regulation
  • local capacity and norms of verification

This is precisely what “history imprints performance” means at the institution layer. (ScienceDirect)

Z2 signature: the organ remains structured differently long after borders move.

Z3 — Persistent capability distribution

A region’s long-run capability distribution affects:

  • economic opportunity
  • professional regeneration
  • governance capacity itself

Z3 signature: education pipelines are civilization-capability pipelines; history can lock different equilibria.

3) Irreversibility Signature (slow, structural)

The irreversibility here is not “no recovery possible.”
It is: the imprint persists long enough to show up in modern test scores even after later convergence pressures. (ScienceDirect)

That is corridor logic: structures persist.

4) General Law (portable, predictive)

Education Governance Imprint Law:
When governance changes education pipeline design for decades, the pipeline’s structure becomes self-reinforcing across Z0–Z2 layers and remains visible in modern performance. Education outcomes are not merely “student effort”; they are pipeline artifacts.

5) Exhibits (sources)

  • Bukowski (2019), Journal of Comparative Economics: regression discontinuity evidence that historical partitions still affect present student performance. (ScienceDirect)

Standard Bridge Block (Bukit Timah → New York → Planetary)

This is the bridge logic in pure form: a local pipeline can represent a system state. If Bukit Timah—an elite high-load node—shows P0 corridor signatures, it is not “random.” It can be an early symptom of a broader structural state that will later show up as Z3 outcomes, just as historical governance structures still show up today.

Index Update (add Case 13 & 14)

Add to the hub Case Index:

  • Case 13 — Prussia 1763 →: compulsory schooling as forced regeneration switch (repair exhibit). (LSE)
  • Case 14 — Partitions of Poland (19th c.): governance imprint visible in modern test scores. (ScienceDirect)

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BukitTimahTutor Lattice Graph Block

Z0 Execution:
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Z2 Exam/Transition:
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Z3 Interfaces:
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Edges:
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