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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.com)
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[–] 37 points 7 months ago* (5 children)

  • Correlation

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Hey, Computer, what's been happening to

  • Average Class size
  • Average teacher years of experience
  • Average annual hours in school

Had it been?

  • Up
  • Down
  • Down

But sure, also, they've replaced a stack of 5 lb textbooks nobody reads with a tablet computer nobody uses.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    The typical class size in US public schools is 16-23 students. In the academic year 2020-2021, the mean class size was 18.3 students, a slight decrease from the 2017-2018 average of 19.6 students. These figures represent the mean across both primary and secondary education.

    https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/education/class-size

    In the United States, average class sizes vary widely, with national averages indicating 21.2 students in elementary schools and up to 26.8 in secondary schools.

    COVID exacerbated the situation over the last five years.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    The situation of class sizes decreasing? The article you gave is from 2021 so im guessing its just methodology of oecd vs nces? the closest citation to that claim is from a 2013 NCES source though.

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