AMERICA’S KIDS CAN’T READ, WRITE, OR CALCULATE, BUT THEY SURE DO KNOW WHICH PRONOUNS OR HORMONE BLOCKERS TO USE, NOT TO MENTION KNOWING THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN “CISGENDER, TRANSGENDER, NONBINARY, AND “GENDER EXPANSIVE.”

AMERICA’S KIDS CAN’T READ, WRITE, OR CALCULATE, BUT THEY SURE DO KNOW WHICH PRONOUNS OR HORMONE BLOCKERS TO USE, NOT TO MENTION KNOWING THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN “CISGENDER, TRANSGENDER, NONBINARY, AND “GENDER EXPANSIVE.” “America’s Kids Earn Disappointing Grades on Nation’s Report Card.”

Math and reading scores for 9-year-old students in the U.S. are flat since 2012, while those of 13-year-olds declined dramatically – representing the first major drops in the subjects since the National Assessment of Educational Progress began tracking long-term academic achievement trends in the 1970s. . . .

 

“None of these results are impressive,” said Peggy Carr, the associate commissioner in the assessment division of the National Center for Education Statistics, which oversees the administration of the testing and the analysis of results.

 

“All of these results are concerning, but the math results were particularly daunting, particularly for 13 year-olds,” she said. “I asked them to go back and check because I wanted to make sure [the results were accurate]. I’ve been reporting these results for years – for decades – and I’ve never reported a slide like that.”