Look at Youtube Shorts in an incognito window to see the mindless crap that's popular among median users.
Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)
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Re: Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)
#22People are talking about Covid, smartphones/screens, social media, and AI. No one has mentioned defunding public education yet.
In Alaska, where I lived most of the last 20 years, education has been largely flat funded for about a decade now. Imagine running an organization in 2026 on that organization's 2016 budget. Schools have a bunch of obligations they have to spend on. Every time health care costs for staff go up, and funding is flat, something gets cut. You can't cut education for a decade straight without impacting student learning.
I don't think Alaska is that much of an outlier in this regard.
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#23I know the knee-jerk reaction is social media, but from the graph in the article, it seems to just get back to the same level as 90s.
Re: Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)
#24Look at Youtube Shorts in an incognito window to see the mindless crap that's popular among median users.
Or look at corporations + elites constantly attacking children for the last 40 years (pushing school vouchers, school choices, attacking teacher unions, politicizing school boards).
Who do you think suffers when elites attack public education? It's always the children.
Fun fact: Silicon Valley elites are big proponents of school vouchers because, like their hatred of American labor, they also hate public schools and don't want to pay for that either.
Re: Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)
#25People are talking about Covid, smartphones/screens, social media, and AI. No one has mentioned defunding public education yet. In Alaska, where I lived most of the last 20 years, education has been largely flat funded for about a decade now. Imagine running an organization in 2026 on that organization's 2016 budget. Schools have a bunch of obligations they have to spend on. Every time health care costs for staff go…
If increasing spending had almost no impact over time why would cutting spending have an impact?
Re: Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)
#26screen time and social media
Screen time and social media definitely have an impact on attention spans, but it's worth pointing out for Mathematics, 2023's average is higher than pre-1990, and reading averages seem to have always been in the 255-265 range.
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#27Re: Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)
#28People are talking about Covid, smartphones/screens, social media, and AI. No one has mentioned defunding public education yet. In Alaska, where I lived most of the last 20 years, education has been largely flat funded for about a decade now. Imagine running an organization in 2026 on that organization's 2016 budget. Schools have a bunch of obligations they have to spend on. Every time health care costs for staff go…
Another Alaskan on HackerNews! I thought I was the only one.
Re: Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)
#29Note that these are 2023 numbers, not 2025.
Re: Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)
#30The right wingers are going to have a heyday with this one just like they’ve been doing with the “Swedes are getting dumber and nobody knows why” articles.
Can you explain for the non-terminally online?