School’s out for the summer so now it is time to examine the state of our education system. By any objective measure our school performance is fair or poor for most children.
Test scores keep plummeting. Math scores hit a 20-year low . ACT scores dropped to a 30-year low last year. In many schools throughout the country, not one child is reading or doing math at grade level proficiency.
Some of this poor performance is due to the unforgivable mistake of shutting down our schools during COVID.But our schools were in long-term decline before COVID.One of the world’s top education scholars, Erik Hanushek, has just issued a report on the 40-year anniversary of the federal study published in 1983 called “ A Nation at Risk .”That study famously warned that: “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that […]
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