Highschool Education

How are teens today educated as compared to the teens of generations past? It seems like today there has been so many advances in technology that its hard to even compare to older generations. But there is once major difference between the two, and that is in the circulum that is being taught. In past generations, most teens were instruced in critical thinking and problem solving. Today it seems like those skills are a lost art. In this certain are of study, critical thinking would allow teens to understand that these movies are just a false reality that should be taken as fiction not fact.