In contrast, when Americans born in 1980 turned 30 in 2010, they averaged about eight months more schooling than their parents.
Why does the writer use time in school as a measure of education? The two are unrelated.
It is a function of demographics and immigration. By 2019 half of the children 18 and under will be minorities as defined by the USG. Hispanics and blacks have the highest school drop out rates. Do the math.
It is not the years a student studies but what the student learns. Eight years of education in 1885 imparted more knowledge and reasoning/logic that a Doctorate today. I make this statement based upon a personal collection of school texts from the period.
My sons who are both highly intelligent have no use for the garbage being spouted as “education” in today’s institutions which exist for the aggrandizement and enrichment of the “professors”