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The federal government’s own tests have blown the whistle on our failing schools. Periodic national reading and math tests of fourth- and eighth-graders have collapsed to alarming lows.
Forty percent of fourth-graders and one-third of eighth-graders can’t even hit the “basic” level in reading. Twenty-four percent of fourth-graders and 39 percent of eight-graders scored below the basic level in math.
At the University of California, San Diego, the elite campus has added a remedial class for elementary and middle-school math.
This is what decades of union control, social experiments, and COVID school shutdowns delivered. America doesn’t just have an achievement gap; we have an accountability gap.
From the NewsTalk 1040 studios, I’m Greg C. Truax.
From the NewsTalk 1040 studios, I’m Greg C. Truax.
Greg C. Truax is president of GCTMediaGroup, a film production studio, online magazine publisher, radio commentator, and creator of written and broadcast opinion commentary