Teenagers' mathematics and reading skills are in an unprecedented decline across dozens of countries and COVID school closures are only partly to be blamed, the OECD said on Tuesday in its latest survey of global learning standards.

Teenagers’ mathematics and reading skills are in an unprecedented decline across dozens of countries and COVID school closures are only partly to be blamed, the OECD said on Tuesday in its latest survey of global learning standards.

  • Maeve@kbin.social
    201·
    11 months ago

    Controversial take: keep the populace ignorant so they don’t get ideas.

    • Haus@kbin.social
      6·
      11 months ago

      And position dumbasses as role models… the willfully ignorant and screechingly loud kind.

    • tygerprints@kbin.social
      3·
      11 months ago

      That’s the Utah way. Now book banning has gone so far as to remove anything that doesn’t include religious or Mormon texts from our kids’ schools. It’s much easier to herd sheep who don’t ever develop the ability (or desire) to think for themselves.