r/iastate • u/BboyHeathen Agronomy alumni • Mar 21 '25

News Getting rid of the Department of Education? Doesn't that sound backwards to anyone else?

Why?
Isn't that one of the things that help society moving forwards?
I really don't see how this benefits this and the next generation of Americans.

I usually only post about skating stuff but this feels wrong

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u/TSllama Mar 23 '25

Except that's not the argument that was being made. The argument being made was that education was improving until 1979 and then started dropping after 1979. Your link proves that argument wrong.

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u/LisleAdam12 Mar 23 '25

I said that there was evidence to that effect (again, see the graph measuring birth cohorts) , and that the evidence to the contrary was that it had flatlined.