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It's easy enough to complain about things. Declining SAT scores are not surprising. The creative question is, does it matter, and what do we do about it?
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My feeling is it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of life, and it is up to the individuals involved to do something about it if they feel it does (students, parents, teachers).
There may actually be a higher percentage of people who can read reasonably well than ever before. But those who can read and absorb and do something useful with this knowledge is probably about the same.
Drive and ambition, not to mention hard work, have always been a bigger determining factor in the success of an individual than an education and I don't see that changing.
Helen