December 7, 2024

YOU CAN THANK THE EDUCATION DEEP STATE (I.E., THE FEDERAL AND STATE DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION, THE TEACHERS’ UNIONS, THE SO-CALLED “ED SCHOOLS,” THE LICENSING AGENCIES, TEXTBOOK MANUFACTURERS, ETC.) FOR THIS TOTAL MELTDOWN. There is now no other choice but to ABOLISH the government schools and return to a free-market in education: U.S. math scores show ‘devastating’ decline.

 

The declines were “steep” and “devastating,” said Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics. While high achievers held their own, low-performing students lost the most, widening achievement gaps.

 

“One in five U.S. eighth graders scored below the low benchmark, meaning they lacked even basic proficiency,” Meltzer writes. That’s way up from earlier years.

 

The drop in science scores was less extreme, but U.S. fourth-graders now score worse in science than they did in 1995.

 

Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan topped the rankings. Poland, Sweden and Australia made the greatest gains, passing the U.S. “We have countries leapfrogging over us,” Carr said.

 

It’s not clear whether school closures, which lasted longer in the U.S. than in Europe or Asia, led to more learning loss. But one of the countries that raised achievement, Sweden, didn’t close elementary schools or mandate masks.

THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE THE INDOCTRINATION WING OF A CERTAIN POLITICAL PARTY: School Board Accused Of Illegal Election Interference After Advocating Against School Choice

TIME TO MOVE IF YOU LIVE IN THESE STATES AND HAVE CHILDREN: States Lower Testing Standards And Shoot Down School Choice

December 6, 2024

COLLEGE LEADES NEED TO SAY ‘NO’ TO SUCH COURSES: ‘Antisemitism on steroids’: Pro-Israel law professor rips Cornell’Gaza’ course

SOME SAVORY READING: Today in the College Collapse

MAKE WORK FOR ACTIVISTS: Michigan’s Radical Faculty Program

DON’T YOU JUST LOVE THE CLOWN SHOW THAT IS THE SO-CALLED IVY LEAGUE? Yale University hosts ‘Transgiving.’

I THOUGHT CLOWN SHOWS WERE SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY: Professor praises North Korea, argues country advances socialist revolution.

December 5, 2024

DEI IS Deflating On a national level, incoming President Trump will hopefully rescind all of Joe Biden’s executive orders implementing DEI and gender theory, including Executive Order 13985, which advanced a “whole-of-government equity agenda.”

The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion mania is ebbing and may be on its way out.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) has, over the past several years, become part of the fabric of American institutions, notably businesses and schools. In a nutshell, DEI pays no mind to quality but, instead, is a system whereby racial bean counting is the sine qua non of our culture. While this has already been a disastrous policy for all concerned, a recent study delves into the serious damage it has done.

EMPHATICALLY YES: End, Don’t Mend DEI

HOW COULD THEY LOSE WHAT THEY NEVER HAD: How Democrats Lost The Plot On Education

THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE NOT FULL OF ROCKET SCIENTISTS FOR TEACHERS. This should not be surprising because the teachers are not required to have legitimate academic degrees: Mississippi teacher fired after allegedly feeding students dog treats mistaken for beef jerky

 

THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE A CLOWN SHOW. Abolish now: NY elementary school called out for teaching gender lessons to kindergarten students

TO CREATE MORE LIBERAL HATERS, OF COURSE: Why are Liberal Haters Teaching Our Children?

ABUSING THEIR POSITIONS: Partisan Professors

December 2, 2024

GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS DOING WHAT THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS DO BEST: ‘Carte blanche to ban whatever’: School district wants to impose radical speech limits

THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO “REVAMP” THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND THAT IS TO GET THE GOVERNMENT 100% OUT OF EDUCATING CHILDREN. It’s the only way: Revamping education? We can only hope

I HAVE NO OPINION ON THIS APPOINTMENT: CEO Linda McMahon Will Lead Trump’s Education Reforms

December 1, 2024

THIS IS NOT A WIN FOR CONSERVATIVES, I PROMISE. THE LEFT WILL FIGURE OUT HOW TO USE THIS TO THEIR ADVANTAGE, I PROMISE. Go back to sleep conservatives:  CLOWN SHOW: University to offer ‘Intro to Fat Studies’ course during upcoming semester

THIS IS HOW YOU TURN SECOND-TIER UNIVERSITIES INTO TOP-TIER UNIVERSITIES:

November 30, 2024

OF COURSE IT IS! How utterly predictable . . . and banal: ‘Queer Marxism’ course coming to Cornell University next semester.

THIS IS BETTER THAN WHAT THEY HAVE NOW, BUT IT’S NOT WITHOUT SERIOUS PROBLEMS: Texas leads counterrevolution in education

November 29, 2024

USUALLY A BIG WASTE OF TIME: Beware Econ Grad School

WOULD YOU WANT HIM TO TEACH YOUR SON OR DAUGHTER?: Professor praises North Korea, argues country advances socialist revolution

MINIMIZING THE STATE AS CO-PARENT The Turner School District in Kansas City let a 4-year-old preschooler take home Jacobs New Dress, a picture book in which “a little boy wears girls’ clothes and even competes with his friend Emily to be a princess.” (It’s no secret that there is an effort by LGBTQ groups to push gender identity dogma on schoolchildren nationwide, and all too often, the government is a willing ally.)

The government’s intrusion into family affairs, notably in educating children, is very troubling; microschools are a way out.

On Oct. 31, Brittany Patterson, a 41-year-old Georgia mother, was arrested and accused of endangering her son—all because the unsupervised 10-year-old walked less than a mile away from home. Patterson told NBC News in an interview, “It’s not a super dangerous or even dangerous-at-all stretch of road. I wasn’t terrified for him or scared for his safety.”

 

THIS IS HOW YOU TURN SECOND-TIER UNIVERSITIES INTO TOP-TIER UNIVERSITIES:

OF COURSE IT IS! How utterly predictable . . . and banal: ‘Queer Marxism’ course coming to Cornell University next semester.

THIS IS NOT A WIN FOR CONSERVATIVES, I PROMISE. THE LEFT WILL FIGURE OUT HOW TO USE THIS TO THEIR ADVANTAGE, I PROMISE. Go back to sleep conservatives: Georgia’s University System To Ban DEI, Commit To Neutrality, Teach Constitution

November 28, 2024

FORGET THAT ‘IT TAKES A VILLAGE’ NONSENSE: Minimizing the State as Co-Parent

THIS IS BETTER THAN WHAT THEY HAVE NOW, BUT IT’S NOT WITHOUT SERIOUS PROBLEMS: Texas leads counterrevolution in education

 

November 27, 2024

THE ONLY WAY TO RETORE QUALITY:  Get the Government Out of Classrooms

OK, BUT DON’T STOP THERE: End Federal Loans for Grad School

THIS IS BETTER THAN WHAT THEY HAVE NOW, BUT IT’S NOT WITHOUT SERIOUS PROBLEMS: Texas leads counterrevolution in education

GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS DOING WHAT THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS DO BEST: ‘Carte blanche to ban whatever’: School district wants to impose radical speech limits

 

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