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Rise of ‘Fed Ed’ Accelerated Demise of Real Education
The U.S. public school system was collectivist from the start, as this ongoing series on government education has extensively documented. But as the feds got involved, it quickly went from bad to worse, with the slow and steady decline in education turning into a precipitous collapse. Today, the schools are a disaster, even by the government’s own measures.
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Tagged John Dewey, National Assessment of Educational Progress, proficiency standards, Robert Aitken, The Epoch Times, Toward Soviet America, u.s. department of education, William Z. Foster
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Socialists Used Public Schools to Destroy Literacy in America
Widespread illiteracy and the ignorance it produces represent an existential threat to the United States today. But it wasn’t always this way.
And it can be fixed.
Fortunately, neither the cause of this crisis nor the solution to it is a mystery—at least to anyone who has studied the issue.
And it can be fixed.
Fortunately, neither the cause of this crisis nor the solution to it is a mystery—at least to anyone who has studied the issue.
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Tagged Arthur Gates, Blue Back Speller, Boston Globe, Boston Review, Common Core, Cultural Marxism, Du Pont de Nemours, dyslexia, Federalist Papers, Horace Mann, Joel Perlmann, John Dewey, Kenneth Lockridge, literacy, National Assessment of Educational Progress, New England Primer, Noah Webster, Old Deluder Satan Act, phonics, Rudolf Flesch, Samuel Blumenfeld, socialist, Stanislas Dehaene, State Education Agency, The New Illiterates, Thomas Gallaudet, Why Johnny Can’t Read, William Gray
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Public Schools Failing Illinois Children Academically
As if the sexualization and radical politics were not enough cause for alarm, the latest data shows public schools are failing Illinois children academically, too — and big time! Indeed, the vast majority of high-school graduates are unprepared for basic college work.
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Tagged ACT, Alex Newman, America's Report Card, Carrie Mocarski, Chicago Public Media, Chicago Public Schools, Community College, Kate MgGee, National Assessment of Educational Progress, SAT, Tara Whitehair, u.s. department of education, Wright College
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Who Are the Science Deniers?
The National Assessment of Educational Progress has issued its “Nation’s Report Card” on America’s schools and the data is clear. Private schools — which are mostly religious — outperform their public-school counterparts in science scores in almost every subcategory, including physical science, life science and earth science.
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Tagged Bixby Public Schools, C.S. Lewis, Dr. Everett Piper, Nation's Report Card, National Assessment of Educational Progress, Rob Miller, The Washington Times
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Only 33 Percent of Students Proficient in English, Math
About two thirds of eighth graders in American government schools do not even rank as “proficient” in reading or math, according to the U.S. Department of Education's recently released National Assessment of Educational Progress. In some districts, less than eight out of 100 students were proficient in either subject.
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Tagged Alex Newman, FreedomProject Media, Math, Nation's Report Card, National Assessment of Educational Progress, Reading, The Newman Report, u.s. department of education, Walter Williams, Writing
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