The Great Dumbing Down of American Education

America ’s universities may be a disgrace, but the deeper problems with our education system lie with grades K-12 .

U.S. 4th and 8th graders are performing worse not only compared to East Asian countries, but also to such places as Poland , the U.K. , South Africa , Turkey , and Sweden .

Peter Bergen : Schools are being turned into indoctrination camps by 'social justice' ideology.

He says it legitimizes, on the basis of “social justice” ideology, lower academic standards.

Bergen says California 's ethnic studies program is openly anti-Zionist , dismisses Jews as white oppressors, views Israel as a cruel colonialist power.

Technology, notably artificial intelligence, seems certain to reduce demand for many positions students are studying for.

College degrees already have been losing value for decades while 40% of recent college graduates are underemployed.

The Chinese , Indians , and Israelis would never allow their systems to deteriorate to the level where their own children could not fill coveted jobs.