We got out from that situation decades ago;
1. There’s an obvious difference between arresting a handful of individuals compared to closing all the universities for a decade (a point which no one has disputed).
2. The U.S. has been politically restrictive on liberal campus protestors for decades now - Students for a Democratic Society, Kent State, the Iraq War protests, and the Gaza Protests - treating it as something new or a cultural revolution is lulz. They will resolve the way they’ve always resolved - the children of upper-middle income professionals will graduate, get a job, enter the middle class, and their political activism impulses will die down, as they always have.
That's the trend of all countries that can move out of a fast and dirty phase into a high tech phase, though I wouldn't call it predictable unless you were talking from a Chinese perspective.
It’s absolutely predictable. There are diminishing returns to physical capital. Regardless of the size of the economy, those patterns still persist so with a higher gdppc, gdp growth slows. China is larger so its economy will almost inherently be more complex and diversified but that doesn’t detract from the original point - China’s growth from 1978 on afterwards was due to physical capital deepening/formation and technological catchup - and both of those will predict declining growth rates with higher gdppc.
I'm sorry but for those who can't read charts, this says nothing about education, but the need to drop the difficulty level of the SATs does say alot about declining education standards.
Right. It wasn’t on topic but increasing educational attainment is well documented - higher graduation rates which reflect greater human capital attainment -
,
. Similarly, high school course rigor has increased a ex. in 1990, 7% of calculus course taking and in 2010, 16% of calculus course taking; for chemistry, 51% to76%, and for physics, 23% to 40% (
).
And also, was it prevalent in the 60's an 70's for all the students of entire schools in multiple districts in urban areas to fail math?
Yes. Urban areas in the U.S. are and have been adversely selected due to redlining and white flight - it’s almost by definition where the worst outcomes will be concentrated, and especially in the 60s and 70s when school desegregation fireworks were all the rage and before the
Serrano decision and its copycats that equalized per capita school funding for all students (urban school districts had substantial funding inequalities in the 60s and 70s due to property tax funding that only equalized after the California Supreme Court decided
Serrano v. Priest, 5 Cal. 3d (1971); and you got various clones of other state supreme courts -
Edgewood Independent School District v. Kirby, 777 S.W.2d 391 (Tex., 1989),
Rose v. Council for Better Education, 790 S.W.2d (Ky. 1989), etc.
Anyway, congratulations(?) for having just over half of high schoolers drink and 1/6th smoke.
Yeah - it’s a common shared global pattern, for example, in China, 17.9% of teenagers have ever smoked -
“we found high levels of drinking among Chinese adolescents aged 12 to 17 years old. Around
half of Chinese teens reported having consumed alcohol at some point” -
Sorry, I come from an education-oriented well to-do country so I can't even imagine a place where that's an improvement over something or a place where 92% of the kids drink and 76% smoke.
The US High School Class of 1980 is now 60 and entering near their retirement age, and they presided over the U.S. turning into an net oil exporter due to oilfield technologies, sustained U.S. leadership in Silicon Valley, the broad IT-ification of all kinds of businesses, and an unprecedented growth in services sector productivity, among others. They are fine and clearly received substantial human capital development.
