On November 19th, Rose Horowitch wrote an excellent piece for the Atlantic about unprepared college students, the first situation. 

But the national trend is very clear: America’s students are getting much worse at math. The decline started about a decade ago and sharply accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic. The average eighth grader’s math skills, which rose steadily from 1990 to 2013, are now a full school year behind where they were in 2013, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the gold standard for tracking academic achievement. Students in the bottom tenth percentile have fallen even further behind. Only the top 10 percent have recovered to 2013 levels.

Yesterday, Horowitch followed up with another education outrage article — Accommodation Nation: America’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem. This article totally misses the mark.

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