Ignorance Is Not Bliss: The Dumbing Down of America | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

The bill for lowered standards is coming due. - Richard K. Vedder

The news is awash with reports that younger Americans are learning less than their parents did a generation ago. 

• One in eight freshmen at the highly selective University of California, San Diego campus place below high school levels in math, leading professors to complain that declining student proficiency is imperiling their ability to provide at least a modicum of math competency. 
• Grade inflation is also leading university students to study far less than their parents or grandparents did in college — for much higher grades. 

Are we becoming a nation of lazy dumbbells?...