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Now 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"
@markhurst US have been degrading since at least 90s so no surprise here
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Now 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"
Which is exactly what they wanted, more stupid gringos...
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Now 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"
Alarming given that, as Horvath put it:
βWeβre facing challenges more complex and far-reaching than any in human historyβfrom overpopulation to evolving diseases to moral drift. Now, more than ever, we need a generation able to grapple with nuance, hold multiple truths in tension, and creatively tackle problems that are stumping the greatest adult minds of today.β
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https://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/tdt8vIt 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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Now 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"
Writing by hand is critically important to cognitive development. Probably eating ants out of small holes with a honey covered stick serves the same purpose, but we don't do that anymore. We are tool users. Our brains are wired for it.
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Now 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"
@markhurst Technosolutionism is a very bad habit.
Bill Gates has also implemented Ill conceived education schemes with bad outcomes for students https://apnews.com/article/bill-gates-670d3c2eb90c4a6db6cdb92ada3daa3b -
Now 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"
@markhurst Sure - It's the screens. Not at all anything to do with spending the last six years conducting the *stupidest experiment ever* of measuring the effects of repeatedly infecting children with a neuro-invasive virus noted for causing symptoms often described as brain fog.
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Now 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"
Illustrates the utter stupidity of the Trump administration, pure evilβ¦
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@markhurst Sure - It's the screens. Not at all anything to do with spending the last six years conducting the *stupidest experiment ever* of measuring the effects of repeatedly infecting children with a neuro-invasive virus noted for causing symptoms often described as brain fog.
@Infoseepage @markhurst
"Fortune reported in 2017 that Maineβs public school test scores had not improved in the 15 years the state had implemented its technology initiative."Test scores not improving in Maine for 15 years prior to 2017 is hard to attribute to the neuro-disruptive effects of COVID-19.
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Now 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"
@markhurst Brainrot is real.
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@Infoseepage @markhurst
"Fortune reported in 2017 that Maineβs public school test scores had not improved in the 15 years the state had implemented its technology initiative."Test scores not improving in Maine for 15 years prior to 2017 is hard to attribute to the neuro-disruptive effects of COVID-19.
@skua @markhurst Show me graphs of Maine's classroom teacher to student ratios for the last fifteen years. Show me teacher pay and average educational achievement. Show me child poverty rates. Show me data on kids needing food assistance and whether they are getting it. Show me vaccination rates.
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Now 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"
@markhurst Tablets were supposed to complement textbooks, not replace them entirely! -
@skua @markhurst Show me graphs of Maine's classroom teacher to student ratios for the last fifteen years. Show me teacher pay and average educational achievement. Show me child poverty rates. Show me data on kids needing food assistance and whether they are getting it. Show me vaccination rates.
@skua @markhurst There are lots of confounding variables other than laptops and tablets, yet we always see articles like this and almost never on the other factors. Yeah, a lot of this predates Covid, but there is a general lack of willingness to even consider or acknowledge the effects of this disease on children and the culpability that schools, school boards and society at large have in not making every effort to reduce exposure in an environment they are forced into.
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Now 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"
@markhurst imagine being the kid picked for this picture
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It would seem that lots of locally produced food would usually be the vegetable variety.
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