“Prior generations of Americans were much better educated than those of today, and high tech had nothing to do with it.”
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Absolutely, we have high school graduates who can’t do simple arithmetic without a calculator, can’t write a coherent paragraph and don’t know the history that fifth graders used to know. We have university graduates who could not pass a high school final from sixty years ago and in some cases could not pass an eighth grade final exam from sixty years ago. We have graduates from our local university who majored in history and don’t know the most elementary facts about how this country came into being. They don’t know the history that used to be required in grade school.
Deval Patrick wants children to be able to read by the 3rd grade. How did they get out of the 1st grade?