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Did Americans Really Stop Getting Smarter?
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Since 1980, have Americans been getting more educated, less educated, or just holding steady? How would you even answer that question? Literacy and math test scores? Trends in our rising or falling IQ scores? The number of years average Americans are spending in school. Changes in our number of high school and college graduates? Actually, in this episode, we’re going to look at all of that at more.
Educational progress in the USA–or lack thereof–matters a lot to the theme of this mini-series of episodes, in which we’re looking at all the nations that, like the USA, became the most educated civilization in the world at some point in the last 1,000 years. We need to look at the science. Did Americans really stop getting smarter?
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