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Which 30 years? Because AI or not I'm thinking certain groups have been attacking literacy for at least the last 30 years.
These are '23 scores, part of it was due to lockdown. Which we're slowly approaching the point of which, 13 year olds had their entire school period in class again.
But I do, as you do, expect the capabilities to have free further from '23 to '25
Problems started before Covid with a steep and ongoing decline in reading.