Decline in educational standards

In the USA, between 1969 and 1989, the scores of high school seniors on the Scholastic Aptitude Test for college entry fell by 53 points. At most American colleges, the majority of students spend the first (and sometimes the second) year in studies that could best be described as remedial. At the beginning of the 1990s, it was reported that the New York Telephone company had to test 57,000 people to find 2,100 bright enough to become operators or repairer-installers.

1. Since the Industrial Revolution, the aim in Europe has been to promote an average level of competence and cater to the norm. More emphasis is put on visual learning techniques. Students are grouped not according to age or ability but based on expectations of the class.

1. Weakening of standards
2. Lack of quality
3. Lack of professional standards

1. Low standard educational institutions
2. Lax university standards
3. Inadequate education system

1. Illiteracy as an obstacle to acquiring skills
2. Erosion of quality of scientific research
3. Educational wastage

1. Inappropriate selection and examination procedures in education
2. Decline in government expenditure on education

1. Upholding educational standards
2. Researching educational standards
3. Raising educational quality
4. Falling
5. Erosion of collective consensus
6. Developing knowledge economy

1. Selfishness
2. Quality
3. Lowness
4. Fall
5. Erosion
6. Decline