Posted on 10/14/2025 4:15:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The past decade may rank as one of the worst in the history of American education. It marks a stark reversal from what was once a hopeful story. At the start of the century, American students registered steady improvement in math and reading. Around 2013, this progress began to stall out, and then to backslide dramatically. What exactly went wrong? The decline began well before the pandemic, so COVID-era disruptions alone cannot explain it. Smartphones and social media probably account for some of the drop. But there’s another explanation, albeit one that progressives in particular seem reluctant to countenance: a pervasive refusal to hold children to high standards.
We are now seeing what the lost decade in American education has wrought. By some measures, American students have regressed to a level not seen in 25 years or more. Test scores from NAEP, short for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, released this year show that 33 percent of eighth graders are reading at a level that is “below basic”—meaning that they struggle to follow the order of events in a passage or to even summarize its main idea. That is the highest share of students unable to meaningfully read since 1992. Among fourth graders, 40 percent are below basic in reading, the highest share since 2000. In 2024, the average score on the ACT, a popular college-admissions standardized test that is graded on a scale of 1 to 36, was 19.4—the worst average performance since the test was redesigned in 1990.
American schoolchildren have given up almost all of the gains they achieved at the start of the century. These learning losses are not distributed equally. Across grades and subjects, the NAEP results show that the top tenth of students are doing roughly as well as...
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Sliding? Child please!
Sliding? It is being deliberately perpetrated by the people who run the schools. To create the kind of subject population the Democrats want.
Big lie-I went to collage.
HEH. Good one.
50 years ago there was a NewsWeek feature entitled “Why Johnny Can’t Read” that erm, went viral if you will and was discussed ad nauseam and major changes were promised to the school systems, but it just kept getting worse from there.
Hopefully Trump will tackle this issue before he leaves office. Tax breaks for homeschooling and private schooling.
Act of war by Democrats to bring an end to the US.
I remember that. Thanks for the reminder.
The lower classes, and much of the middle class, are being dummied down. Easier to control.
The most recent data I can find at the Census Bureau website is the 2020 Census.
From memory...
Close to 45% of USA public school students are Black, Hispanic, Immigrant, or first generation native born Americans.
Only the stupid parts.
Big time.
Big time.
That’s why we have to fight the demonrats at every level tooth and nail, metaphorically speaking.
Which would be the blue run cities.
"... And there was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn't just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe that time can come again!"
This is the strategy. Fail to educate our younger generations so we can call them ignorant.
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