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U.S. students from educated families lag in international tests (12 years ago, 59 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7744918

Note: I could not find posts about US reading / writing educational failures prior to this in the archives, though they may still exist; but there are still many about math education and bad business writing. However, I believe this post was the bellwether warning of what would follow:

A writing career becomes harder to scale (16 years ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1109011