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
ANALYSIS — TRUE: Thanks to Elites, College Is Now a Costly Path to Nowhere
COLLEGE LEADES NEED TO SAY ‘NO’ TO SUCH COURSES: ‘Antisemitism on steroids’: Pro-Israel law professor rips Cornell’Gaza’ course
TOO BAD THEY CAN’T START TODAY: 10 outrageous taxpayer-funded higher ed research projects DOGE can investigate
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.’
DEFINING WINNERS AND LOSERS:
A GREAT RECKONING IS COMING: Colleges in crisis thanks to high costs and intolerant extremism.
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
DOESN’G SOUND CRAZY AT ALL: Eliminating the Department of Education Isn’t as Crazy as It Sounds
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
ALL THIS IS COMING TO AN END: EXCLUSIVE: School District Makes Staff ‘Honor All Gender Identities’ In Acknowledgment Statements
TO CREATE MORE LIBERAL HATERS, OF COURSE: Why are Liberal Haters Teaching Our Children?
DEFINING DEVIANCY DOWN: Teen Sounds Off To School Board Over ‘Graphic’ And ‘Incestual Sexual’ Story Read In Class
ABUSING THEIR POSITIONS: Partisan Professors
December 3, 2024
GOOD. We need more of this at more universities: Texas ‘free speech’ university’s admissions process shuns the DEI blueprint: ‘Interested in the mind’
A NUTTER IS RUNNING THE ASYLUM!!! Only in the so-called “Ivy League”: She’s Chief Resident of Yale’s Child Psychiatry Program. She Also Says Her Husband Can’t Have White Friends ‘Unless They Meet Me First.’ Dr. Amanda Calhoun says psychiatry ‘is rooted in anti-Black racism.’
THEY’RE RUNNING SCARED: Higher ed accreditors emphasize nonpartisanship after Trump’s ‘radical left’ remark.
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
SHE’S LYING, BUT THAT’S OK: Teachers union boss claims members ‘don’t really care’ if education dept is abolished
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
WHAT CAN’T GO ON FOREVER, WON’T: A black professor leaves academia: ‘Critical thinking became critical feeling.’
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
LOSERS. “Decolonizing” anything was so 1990s: University at Buffalo hosts ‘tough topics’ event on ‘decolonizing’ Thanksgiving.
YES, IT IS WRONG: On every level, this is just wrong.
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.
THE NEW-NEW-NEW MATH COMING HOME TO ROOST: Oops! School district ‘forgot’ to provide money for approved teacher raises
THIS IS BETTER THAN WHAT THEY HAVE NOW, BUT IT’S NOT WITHOUT SERIOUS PROBLEMS: Texas leads counterrevolution in education
THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS: Republican senator introduces legislation to get rid of Department of Education
THEY WANT THIS FOR YOUR CHILDREN: Parents scold schools for demanding ‘gender identity’ of 3-year-olds!
November 29, 2024
THIS IS DEPLORABLY TRUE: As a teacher, I know how we have dumbed won education — and how kids suffer
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.)
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
ANALYSIS — TRUE: Hate monopolies? Then you should support school choice
OK, BUT DON’T STOP THERE: End Federal Loans for Grad School
SHE MUST BE PRETTY GOOD, THEN: WaPo Smears SedEd Nominee McMahon over Nonsense
THE NEW-NEW-NEW MATH COMING HOME TO ROOST: Oops! School district ‘forgot’ to provide money for approved teacher raises
THIS IS BETTER THAN WHAT THEY HAVE NOW, BUT IT’S NOT WITHOUT SERIOUS PROBLEMS: Texas leads counterrevolution in education
THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS: Republican senator introduces legislation to get rid of Department of Education
THEY WANT THIS FOR YOUR CHILDREN: Parents scold schools for demanding ‘gender identity’ of 3-year-olds!
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS DOING WHAT THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS DO BEST: ‘Carte blanche to ban whatever’: School district wants to impose radical speech limits