[Navy Patriot]

Public education in the United States, if measured by results, has been producing graduates that are less competent in language skills and dramatically less well taught in the sciences and mathematics since 1964, when Scholastic Aptitude Test scores peaked.

Interesting, that's a little earlier than I thought, but it still fits with my experience.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Interesting timing, considering that the massive social upheavals of the 1960s were starting to happen at that time.