‘These results are sobering’: US high-school seniors’ reading and math scores plummet

On top of what other commenters have already said, this will get worse as schools are continuously defunded in the US.

Hey, guess what was going on four years ago?

• covid
• the conclusion of 4 years of crippling mismanagement of the US educational system by the first stint orangeboi had in office

IIRC, COVID-19 policy and remote schooling policy was found to be pretty harmful for student performance. We lost some educational time because our schools weren't operating as effectively. I remember discussion at the time that this would have some amount of lasting negative impact. It also hurt other countries. I don't know how much of this is due to that, but we expected a fall.

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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10266495/

Some snippets:

A Policy Analysis for California Education report found that by the time students completed interim winter assessments in the 2020–21 school year, they had experienced a learning lag of approximately 2.6 months in English language arts (ELA) and 2.5 months in math (Pier et al., 2021). Moreover, economically disadvantaged students, English learners, and students of color experienced a more significant learning lag than students not in these groups (Goldhaber et al., 2022, Pier et al., 2021).

Engzell et al. analyzed performance in reading and comprehension of factual and literary subjects among 350,000 primary school students in national exams before and after an 8-week lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic (Engzell et al., 2020). The results revealed a post-pandemic decrease in reading performance of more than 3 % compared with pre-pandemic test results (Engzell et al., 2020). Similar unfavorable results were reported by Rose et al.’s study in England during the spring and summer of 2020 (Rose et al., 2021), which followed 6000 pupils for two years and evaluated learning performance using National Foundation for Educational Research standardized tests. The results revealed significantly lower reading performance in 2020 compared with a 2017 sample, with 5.2 % of students scoring two marks fewer. Moreover, reading assessments revealed a 7-month progress delay in 2020, compared with a 2019 sample (Rose et al., 2021).

I expect this to get exponentially worse with AI; on the one hand, because it will be used by pupils without understanding, and on the other, by the elites/"job creators" who can use it to access skill without having to pay for it anymore.

All according to the child rapist meat puppet and Thiel’s plan to eradicate schooling all together.

Ignorance is bliss.

All to plan, but damn how do parents let the children grow up illiterate?

I think it's probably because a lot of students don't see the reward in actually learning stuff anymore.

People are very much feeling this. I talk to lots of people and many (aged 24) say that they feel like they wasted a lot of their time striving for good grades and education while they could have actually enjoyed their lifes, meet friends, enter relationships and have fun. They focused on education because they felt certain that it would lead to a good, well-paying job later in life, which would make it all have been worth it.

Now this is becoming untrue, and people realize they've studied/learned for many years, only to be unemployed because the labor market is increasingly lowering demand.

Good news for older generations in the workforce. Bad news for humanity.

Lol. So, uh, guys... about that voting age thingy... hows that coming along for ya?

Considering the potency of smartphones causing ADD, the results are hardly surprising.

There's are reasons schools around the world are starting to ban these things.