The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune
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Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”
  • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
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    18 days ago

    I’m sure the systemic defunding and dismantling of the public education system across the United States at the hands of Republican lawmakers over the same timeframe has absolutely nothing to do with it.

    • Safetyshaft@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      18 days ago

      Right? It always confounds and amazes me when people discount this simple fact.

      Education has been fucked over so hard in this country, repeatedly. They want people dumb.