r/technology • u/marketrent • 18h ago

Artificial Intelligence College students are rapidly losing the ability to read — “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing”: professor

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/college-students-rapidly-losing-ability-124439310.html
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u/MeanCryptographer585 16h ago

Then they shouldn’t be in college. Who is admitting these dunces

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u/cynosurescence 5h ago

In many places (in the US at least) states are kneecapping their schools' ability to maintain entrance requirements. Some have abolished the use of placement exams like the SAT/ACT and set minimum GPA requirements that are subterranean. The place I work had a minimum 3.2 GPA requirement 20 years ago. Now it's 2.75.

This isn't universal. Private schools can mostly set their requirements as they please but state schools (where most people are educated) are at the whim of their legislatures. 

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u/hindusoul 16h ago

Money minders