The Intelligence: F is for falling standards
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
America is producing more high-school graduates—but on average, they know less. We ask how a push for equity can in reality seed a systemic failing. London’s Canary Wharf was built as a high-rise jungle for white-collar workers; how is it surviving in a work-from-home world (7:57)? And amid a general decline in cinemagoing, the high end of the market is thriving (14:02).
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| 1:15.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:17.0 | And I'm Ora Ogenbei. |
| 1:19.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:24.0 | There's a London neighborhood called Canary Wharf, |
| 1:30.0 | filled with glass and steel buildings, which in turn used to be filled with white-collar workers. |
| 1:35.0 | How it's changing in a work-from-home post-pandemic world could be a model for many other cities. |
| 1:42.0 | And when we were locked up at home during the pandemic, cinemas took a big hit and not all of |
| 1:48.8 | them survived. |
| 1:49.8 | For those who have begun heading back to the movies, they're opting for really big |
| 1:54.5 | big screens, reclining seats, and a much fancier experience. But first. |
| 2:09.0 | So you've never been to a real school before. |
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