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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to this article, born between 1978 and 1987 are more literate than people born before and after. What was going right during those times?
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2016/12/23/the-declining-productivity-of-education/[/quote]

I read the NAEP report and I’m not sure the headline matches the data.  The math/reading scores for all 17 year olds has been pretty much constant from the start of testing.

Reading average in 1970 for 17 year olds was 285, it peaked in 1990 at 290 and it sits at 287 now.  For math, the numbers are 304 (71), 308 (99) and 306 now.

From looking at data by racial groups, whites have had basically the same reading scores since the test started, and have had math scores that have improved moderately since the 70s.  Blacks and Hispanics have seen their scores rise significantly across all subjects.  The majority of the rise was from the 70s to the 90s.  Scores remaining the same as the population of historically underperforming groups growing seems to be [b]good[/b] news rather than bad.

You can dig deeply into the data here: https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/ndecore/xplore/ltt[/quote]

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