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I need to dive into this report. It has made national headlines. Even CNBC was talking about it this morning, and it's not really a business story, except it is.

And I want my starting point here

be the New York Times for the story. Let me read you this from Dana Goldstein at the New York Times.

The reading skills of American high school seniors are the worst they have been in three

decades, according to new federal testing

data, a worrying sign for teenagers as they face an uncertain job market and information

landscape challenged by AI. In math, 12th graders had the lowest performance since 2005.

The results from the national assessment of Educational Progress, long regarded as the nation's most reliable gold standard exam, showed that about a third of the 12th graders who were tested last year did not have basic reading skills.

It was a sign that, among other skills, they may not to be able to determine

the purpose of a political speech. In math, nearly half of the test takers scored below the

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