From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
      
   On 2025-12-02, Dan Cross  wrote:   
   > In article <10gks0t$1kmd0$1@dont-email.me>,   
   > Simon Clubley   wrote:   
   >>[snip]   
   >>How on earth can someone not know how to divide a fraction by two ?   
   >   
   > I think this is discarding all nuance from a complex issue.   
   >   
   > Much of what the Atlantic article described, for instance, is   
   > due to the lingering fallout from the pandemic: an utterly   
   > unprecedented event in our lifetimes.  Most kids entering   
   > college now had their education (and much of their social   
   > development) severely curtailed, due to circumstances affecting   
   > that entire globe that were completely out of those kids'   
   > control; or that of their parents, for that matter.  To ignore   
   > all of that and basically declare, "Americans are igorant" is,   
   > itself, ignorant.   
   >   
      
   I thought the structural problems had existed for a long time and   
   that the pandemic had only made more severe the structural problems   
   which already existed. The Atlantic article talks about the latest   
   decline starting about 2013.   
      
   BTW, I was interested to read about the issues and tradeoffs around   
   the stopping of standardised testing during the application process   
   in some higher education establishments a few years ago.   
      
   Simon.   
      
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   Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
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