The results also coincide with the explosion of large language models like ChatGPT, which by many accounts have carved out a new floor for academic failure in both K-12 and college-level education.
"A new floor"? Hold my beer!

My first thought is: are these low scores after filtering out non-citizen kids who are "refugees", "illegal immigrants", "Palestinians", or whatever the "oppressed" group name is for each western country?
LIBTARDS DESTROY everything they touch: Education, music, elections, politics, courts, movies, public gatherings, sports, etc..
Retired urban high school teacher here.
In my experience:
Here’s the way it used to be:
If a student didn’t do the work, he failed.
That of course motivated most students to do the work.
Here’s the way it is now:
If a student doesn’t do the work, he passes anyway.
School district orders.
🙁
What do you expect when you ban such classics as
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
If I Ran the Zoo
McElligot’s Pool
On Beyond Zebra!
Scrambled Eggs Super!
The Cat’s Quizzer
So low IQ race-monger Ta-Nehisi Coates is at Plato's level in the Western canon?
I think the author and his views are to blame for why American college students have the mentality of 10 year-olds.
This is the culmination of a multi-generation effort.