Only 22% of 12th graders scored proficient in math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress last year, the lowest on record. Roughly one in eight freshmen at the University of California, San Diego—ranked sixth nationally by U.S. News & World Report—lack rudimentary high-school math skills defined as geometry, algebra and algebra 2. It doesn’t help that the UC Board of Regents in 2020 scrapped standardized tests as an admissions requirement under the guise of promoting “equity.” AI isn’t the real threat in the dumbing down Americans, lack of basic education standards is.
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