The Common Room’s “Homeschooling the Little Ones” refers to a British study which found:

Far from getting cleverer, our 11-year-olds are, in fact, less “intelligent” than their counterparts of 30 years ago. Or so say a team who are among Britain’s most respected education researchers.

After studying 25,000 children across both state and private schools Philip Adey, a professor of education at King’s College London confidently declares: “The intelligence of 11-year-olds has fallen by three years’ worth in the past two decades.”

I will say that it isn’t true of my boys. But they had a lot of time to play, which is The Common Room’s note.