Perhaps what's most distressing about the latest collapse in high school test scores is that no one seems distressed about it.
Perhaps what’s most distressing about the latest collapse in high school test scores is that no one seems distressed about it.
Instead of outrage, it is almost as if Americans have become anesthetized to bad news about our children. Forty years ago, the 1983 National Commission on Excellence in Education issued its findings on the state of the schools in its report titled “A Nation at Risk.” Here was the memorable and grim conclusion: “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.”
The decline in test scores is only half the story. The other part of the story is that the biggest declines in learning and achievement are among the poorer families. California recently announced it is going to make climate change a standard part of the school curriculum. Really? They are going to scare the bejeezus out of children with a propaganda campaign telling them the world is coming to an end. Why don’t they try phonics so kids can read?
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