‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’ What happens when even college . . . Summary of Rose Horowitch’s Article in The Atlantic (Nov 19, 2025) by Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic Magazine Rose Horowitch describes a nationwide educational crisis that has left incoming college students dramatically underprepared in mathematics and logical reasoning At UC San Diego, the number of freshmen lacking even middle-school math skills has exploded, mirroring trends across the
The American Math Crisis - The Ringer National assessments in the U S and even throughout the developed world show that people are getting worse at math But why?Rose Horowitch, Kelsey Piper, and Joshua Goodman, join to talk about
American Kids Cant Do Math Anymore - Slashdot American Kids Can't Do Math Anymore (theatlantic com) 250 Posted by msmash on Thursday November 20, 2025 @11:03AM from the grave-concerns dept
The scary truth about how far behind American kids have fallen That picture is sobering: In spring 2023, just 56 percent of American fourth-graders were performing on grade level in math, down from 69 percent in 2019, according to just one example of test score data cited in the report