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

( Post Millennial )

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.

“This is not a debate about rejecting technology,” Horvath wrote. “It is a question of aligning educational tools with how human learning actually works. Evidence indicates that indiscriminate digital expansion has weakened learning environments rather than strengthened them. Federal policy can restore balance by demanding evidence, protecting children’s developmental needs, and ensuring that innovation serves learning rather than attention capture."

"Our responsibility is not to maximize screen exposure, but to maximize the cognitive capacity and long-term flourishing of the next generation," he concluded.

Additionally, early data from Stanford University has found that AI in the workplace has a “significant and disproportionate impact on entry-level workers in the U.S. labor market.”

Horvah warned that as a result of this, humans may be facing challenges they may not be able to handle as well over the course of the next several decades. “We’re facing challenges more complex and far-reaching than any in human history—from overpopulation to evolving diseases to moral drift,” he told reporters. “Now, more than ever, we need a generation able to grapple with nuance, hold multiple truths in tension, and creatively tackle problems that are stumping the greatest adult minds of today.”