are there fewer smarter students in Northern Virginia now?
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Anonymous
I said the elimination of the measures of merit. Like testing. Eliminating testing is a thing that the left wants to do. They want to eliminate the measures of merit because there are extremely large disparities in test scores between groups and rather than address the underlying reason for these disparities, they would rather ignore them and pretend we have lifted everyone to a level playing field. |
Anonymous
DP Wait, you had kids when you were 20? Not to judge too much but isn't that kinda young? Teachers seem to think things are worse now than 5 years ago https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2024/04/04/teachers-views-on-the-state-of-public-k-12-education/ And politics in education seems to be the culprit. |
Anonymous
| The new generation of parent is not buying into the abusive acceleration rat race that has deprived a prior generation of childhoods. the kids are just as smart as ever, but they might just leave college courses for their college years. |
Anonymous
Except today's college courses are at middle school level ten years ago in third world countries. A happy childhood (which is important) doesn't mean a wasted childhood. |
Anonymous
Yes, that's very true if you live in the imaginary dark apocalypse that Trump talks about. |
Anonymous
Politicizing is unnecessary. It’s not always someone else’s fault. |
Anonymous
troll |
Anonymous
https://www.bobuttl.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/1309142_Manuscript-AsAccepted-PriorToCopyProofs.pdf "Meta-analysis: On average, undergraduate students' intelligence is merely average [...] Method. We conducted a meta-analysis of the mean IQ scores of college and university students samples tested with Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale between 1939 and 2022. Results. The results show that the average IQ of undergraduate students today is a mere 102 IQ points and declined by approximately 0.2 IQ points per year. " Article that draws from the above paper: https://bigthink.com/thinking/iq-score-average-college-students/ That is, of course, overall and partially a consequence of a large expansion in the student population. But how're things doing at highly selective colleges? https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/the-elite-college-students-who-cant-read-books/679945/ "THE ELITE COLLEGE STUDENTS WHO CAN’T READ BOOKS " ... Twenty years ago, Dames’s classes [at Columbia] had no problem engaging in sophisticated discussions of Pride and Prejudice one week and Crime and Punishment the next. Now his students tell him up front that the reading load feels impossible. It’s not just the frenetic pace; they struggle to attend to small details while keeping track of the overall plot." https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2024/03/university-people-the-undergraduate-balance "AWOL from Academics I RECENTLY STARTED using an application that tracks my work, producing weekly summaries of time spent on each activity, such as homework, socializing, or eating a meal. I was surprised to find I spend far, far less time on my classes than on my extracurricular activities—working as a research assistant, editing columns for the Crimson, or writing for Harvard Magazine. It turns out that I’m not alone in my meager coursework. Although the average college student spent around 25 hours a week studying in 1960, the average was closer to 15 hours in 2015. I’ve come to believe that this decline represents a fundamental and under-discussed transformation in how students—especially Harvard students—view school. Many onlookers and alumni likely have a sense of this trend, but I doubt they realize the full extent of it. This fall, one of my friends did not attend a single lecture or class section until more than a month into the semester. Another spent 40 to 80 hours a week on her preprofessional club, leaving barely any time for school. A third launched a startup while enrolled, leaving studying by the wayside...." |