part 2 I think it would turn down the heat and turn up the light if people would actually go into some classrooms and see what the situation actually is. Ideally a random sample, but even a sample of schools in different SES neighborhoods and grade levels would work.
There is no doubt that the average college student is not up to the average student 50 years ago. There are at least two things contributing to this. One is selective memory and retention. Things are not like they used to be and they never were. Remember how our generation had to walk miles to school in hip deep snow, uphill both ways? There are cunieform writing from the time of the Sumerians decrying that failures of the the then current younger generation. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
