Dismal New “Nation’s Report Card” Scores Further Vindicate Trump Reforms at Dept. of Education
Alan Jamison – New data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) – also known as “The Nation’s Report Card” – has further confirmed that American students are falling woefully behind. The data also provides more vindication for President Donald Trump’s stance that the Department of Education is failing at its job, and that more control over education should be returned to parents, states, and individual school districts.
As AMAC Newsline reported earlier this year, the 2024 NAEP for fourth and eighth graders found that an astonishing 69 percent of fourth-graders and 70 percent of eighth-graders scored at or below “basic” in reading — totaling the largest percentage of struggling students in the study’s history. Fourth- and eighth-grade reading scores dropped two points from 2022 and five points from 2019. Continue reading
Clarice Feldman – For some time, optimists like me have had to work hard to keep believing that reason will prevail. I now think, as reality sets in, my faith in reason, though too long delayed, is not unwarranted. This week is, I think, the beginning of the end for some nutty thinking and policies.