'These results are sobering': US high-school seniors' reading and math scores plummet

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45. I have one quibble

I've gone to public schools all my life. My UC education is every bit as good as an Ivy League education (perhaps better because I had to put in the work rather than being given an A because I showed up). So sometimes you don't "get what you pay for."

In fact, the student loan crisis, which exists because of defunding of public higher ed, and because employers keep increasing degree requirements, including for jobs that don't even need a BA to do, and a host of other reasons, also correlates with the trend of students applying to 30 colleges instead of 3, of every student thinking they "have" to go to an Ivy or their life is over, so they apply to all of them "just in case" they get into one... what a waste.

If people would stop assuming the most expensive schools are the best, we'd all be better off.

But yes to all the rest.