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Ridgewood NJ, America’s public education system reports the worst literacy and math performance in decades, its schools dedicate increasingly immense portions of their time to lessons on the supposed virtues of racial and gender segregation.
Instead of utilizing data-proven methods to close gaps in literacy and math, like many private and microschools do, most public schools have centered on a different tactic: political distraction.
Math and reading test scores among US 13-year-olds declined significantly since 2019, according to figures released yesterday from the National Assessment of Education Progress, also known as the “Nation’s Report Card.” Observers claim pandemic school closures likely accelerated what was already a decadelong downward trend in basic academic benchmarks.
But when a school wastes eight hours a day on political activism instead of academic instruction, literacy and math competency don’t improve. Political activism isn’t preparing students for the challenges of their future career and for adulthood, and public schools’ attempts to convince parents that it does is falling on deaf ears.
The test was administered to a representative sampling of roughly 8,700 students from 460 schools between October and December of last year. Average decline in scores was consistent across race, gender, and income level—averaging a nine-point drop in math and four-point drop in reading. The test is scored out of 500 points, with experts describing a change of 10 points as equal to a year of learning lost or gained. Researchers also noted student absenteeism as a contributing factor, which has doubled since 2020.
The latest report confirms similar results from other nationwide assessments of fourth and eighth graders over the last year. See the latest report card here.
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Independent education is better for children than schooling. More parents are coming to this conclusion and making the commitment.
And LGBTQ and critical race theory are at the top of the agenda in all public schools.
The world is laughing at us as we fall farther and farther behind. Your can’t build a bridge with diversity.
You can’t fill an empty pilot seat based on equity.