What I’m saying is that the decline in math skills isn’t as obvious as you’re making out. The post COVID cohorts currently in high school are doing a lot better than the ones who are currently sophomores in college did. Anecdotally anyway, sample size one high school.
> U.S. students remained relatively steady in science and reading in 2015 compared with 2012, when the exam was last administered, but dropped below the global average in math.
> Of the 35 OECD member countries, the U.S. was among the lowest-performing in math—finishing 31st—continuing a downward trend that started in 2009.
> Outspending all but two countries on education, the U.S. joins countries like Norway and Switzerland that provide significant funding to their school systems yet aren’t seeing the same high performance from their students as other countries that spend less.
It is even more an indictment of the education system if, this long after COVID, so many students are doing so poorly.
