Why U.S. Test Scores Are in a 'Generation-Long Decline'

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4. I've commented on a disturbing lack of knowledge of even recent important history, geography,

civics (obviously), but even more the total loss of ability to write, spell (even with spell-checkers), grammar (even basic), express complex thought, and on the verbal level, to pronounce even basic words and names. To illustrate the later, I overheard an older teen trying to pronounce the last name "MEAD" and it came out "MEE-AWD" or "MEE-Add"... Only when another "stepped in" did "ME-EED" occur to them.

Okay. One person. One issue. But I know from the grad students and others I've tried to mentor in recent years, that there IS a trend (and NOT a good one).