Gen Z 1st generation to score WORSE on tests than their parents after textbooks replaced with $30 BI

[rangerrebew]

Gen Z 1st generation to score WORSE on tests than their parents after textbooks replaced with $30 BILLION in laptops
"Our responsibility is not to maximize screen exposure, but to maximize the cognitive capacity and long-term flourishing of the next generation."
 

Gen Z 1st generation to score WORSE on tests than their parents after textbooks replaced with $30 BILLION in laptops
 
Thomas Stevenson
Feb 23, 2026
 
The United States, as it has spent $30 billion in order to switch from the use of textbooks to laptops and tablets in schools, has paid the heavy price of letting the next generation's mental capabilities slip.

Maine was one of the first states to implement a laptop program at some grade levels in 2002. Those programs grew throughout the country and by the time 2024 came around, the United States had spent $30 billion in order to distribute laptops and tablets to students in a variety of grades and schools.
 
However, over 20 years later, the psychologists have determined that Gen Z is the first generation that is less cognitively capable than the generation that came before them, per Fortune. Gen Z is the first generation to score lower on standardized tests than previous generations, according to neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath.

Horvah, who testified before the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation earlier this year, cited data from the Program for International Student Assessment. He said in his testimony that the heavy use of technology is to blame.

https://thepostmillennial.com/gen-z-1st-generation-to-score-worse-on-tests-than-their-parents-after-textbooks-replaced-with-30-billion-in-laptops

[The_Reader_David]

Bari Weiss's The Free Press recently had an article on this entitled "We Gave Students Laptops and Took Away Their Brains": https://www.thefp.com/p/we-gave-students-laptops-and-took.

[Smokin Joe]

" Ours is the age, that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to think "

Mumford Jones

[Fishrrman]

I recall reading that Steve Jobs would not let his own kids have iPhones or related devices, and that he made them study "the old fashioned way". Interesting, if true...

[AllThatJazzZ]

 

[Bigun]

I'm so old I remember when we solved math problems with pencils and paper!

[mountaineer]

These devices detract from any effort to educate children.