Mark HurstNow THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
Nicole Parsonshttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/education-decline-low-expectations/684526/
https://plus.flux.community/p/the-science-behind-why-donald-trump
Koch Network and its tech allies have worked very hard at dropping the average literacy of the American electorate.
https://www.ft.com/content/fc508005-aefc-43a4-a40e-d5317f9c3c13
https://archive.ph/tdt8v
It has paid off handsomely. For the 1%
https://www.politico.com/video/2016/02/donald-trump-i-love-the-poorly-educated-044575
https://www.vox.com/2016/2/24/11107788/donald-trump-poorly-educated
https://jacobin.com/2021/04/take-me-to-your-leader-the-rot-of-the-american-ruling-class
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/30/kochs-public-schools-shakeup-244259
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/09/whats-driving-decline-in-u-s-literacy-rates/
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In an effort to resegregate public education, billionaires & their bigots have torched the engine of American innovation & progress.
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5484190-literacy-crisis-national-literacy-month/
https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2025/12/america-read-below-6th-grade-level/
https://www.mentalfloss.com/geography/maps/adult-literacy-rates-by-state
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/12th-grade-reading-skills-low-naep.html
What's caused reading scores to drop to worst point in decades? Education expert weighs in
Math and reading scores dropped to their lowest levels in more than two decades among high school seniors. That's according to the Nation’s Report Card put out by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. It shows that student achievement has continued to decline since the pandemic. There are many theories about what’s going on, and William Brangham explored some of that with Thomas Kane.
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