Comment by intended
19 days ago
As I recall, the author of the article looks at this at over a long enough time horizon to call out the difference.
I rechecked the article, and they’ve been teaching for 30 years. I went through the links (1) (2) and it looks like this has been accelerating since 2010, with one comment saying they noticed it starting in 2006.
1) https://www.honest-broker.com/p/whats-happening-to-students
2) https://www.ft.com/content/a8016c64-63b7-458b-a371-e0e1c54a1...
This is from the article.
> with one comment saying they noticed it starting in 2006.
Yup. This is exactly when high school graduation rates started to skyrocket – my cohort being from a few years earlier – and with virtually everyone (save those who are completely disabled) graduating by the time we were into the 2010s. That was a significant shift in the landscape, and it happened quickly to boot.
Shove a greater number of people with less ability into education and you are going to notice.