silence7Feb 22

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

https://slrpnk.net/post/34417565

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 - SLRPNK

Archived copies of the article: * ghostarchive.org [https://ghostarchive.org/archive/jfeFQ] * web.archive.org [https://web.archive.org/web/20260221211705/https://fortune.com/2026/02/21/laptops-tablets-schools-gen-z-less-cognitively-capable-parents-first-time-cellphone-bans-standardized-test-scores/]

Show threadUnderpantsWeevilFeb 23

  • Correlation

  • Causation

Hey, Computer, what’s been happening to

  • Average Class size
  • Average teacher years of experience
  • Average annual hours in school

It’s been

  • Up
  • Down
  • Down

But sure, also, they’ve replaced a stack of 5 lb textbooks nobody reads with a tablet computer nobody uses.

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seatingchartmaker.app/…/class-size-statistics/ USA seems stable for class size?
Class Size Statistics & Trends: Visualized & Curated [2024]

The typical class size in US public schools is 16-23 students. In the academic year 2020-2021, the mean class size was 18.3 students, a slight decrease from…

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Show threadUnderpantsWeevilFeb 24

The typical class size in US public schools is 16-23 students. In the academic year 2020-2021, the mean class size was 18.3 students, a slight decrease from the 2017-2018 average of 19.6 students. These figures represent the mean across both primary and secondary education.

www.ebsco.com/research-starters/…/class-size

In the United States, average class sizes vary widely, with national averages indicating 21.2 students in elementary schools and up to 26.8 in secondary schools.

COVID exacerbated the situation over the last five years.

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Show threadevolFeb 24
The situation of class sizes decreasing? The article you gave is from 2021 so im guessing its just methodology of oecd vs nces? the closest citation to that claim is from a 2013 NCES source though.