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.
What about the quality of the educated individual? Are students of today better educated? I think not (generally).
Liberals destroy EVERYTHING they touch.
American education, was one of the first.
For some reason, our side has not deemed it important to take that back from liberals. So the damage continues every. Single. Day.
Full speed.
That’s because you’re not thinking like a tenured school teacher or professor. I spent more time uneducating freshly minted electrical engineers than anything else. I would tell them your real education began when you hit the shop floor. I was amazed at how little knowledge the had of even basic electronics, or ac and dc theory for that matter.
Not only that, but if an ever-lengthening time spent in school is desirable, then the authors’ ideal, I guess, would be a generation of people who aren’t ready to enter the workforce until retirement age.
At some point, it has to slow down.
“Why does the writer use time in school as a measure of education?”
There is data available based on time in school. Tough to comprehend, I know.
“Why does the writer use time in school as a measure of education? The two are unrelated.”
It amazes me that today’s students, with almost limitless resources and money available to them, are becoming tomorrow’s functionally illiterate adults. I work with a Chinese guy who can’t believe it either. He has a Masters from a US university. Where he grew up in China, they didn’t even have BOOKS for students or a LIBRARY.