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National test scores plunge, with still no sign of pandemic recovery
The Washington Post ^ | June 21, 2023 | Donna St. George

Posted on 06/21/2023 4:49:17 AM PDT by fwdude

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Pathetic. I’ll bet they can recite all the “genders” though.
1 posted on 06/21/2023 4:49:17 AM PDT by fwdude
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Who needs an education when the U.S. “Government” is now supporting everyone on the planet?


2 posted on 06/21/2023 4:52:20 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (FJB is out there signing hundreds of new gun laws and won't even enforce one against his own son.)
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The pandemic may have had some effect, but the real culprit is the US Department of Education. The national level of education has been steadily dropping since it’s formation in 1980 under President Carter. It was to be his legend.

Control of Education should be at State level as per the US Constitution.


3 posted on 06/21/2023 5:03:22 AM PDT by elpadre (nd )
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"Student scores plunged nine points in math and four points in reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often regarded as the nation's report card."

Yes, the plan is working well.. Soon we will reach that point where we will all be equal.. "We need workers, not thinkers". John D. Rockefeller..

4 posted on 06/21/2023 5:06:17 AM PDT by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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Simple solution: eliminate all testing !

/Commucrat ‘thinking’


5 posted on 06/21/2023 5:16:40 AM PDT by tomkat (SOTU = FUBAR)
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6 posted on 06/21/2023 5:18:48 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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Organizational theory says any large organization can only do wone thing well. In the fifties the school system taught reading, writing and arithmetic. As the hippie generation took over teaching jobs, they started teaching politics alongside the basics. Now the basics are entirely absent, and the schools only teach politics.

On a related topic I discovered the funds I was buying through Oppenheimer all contained at least 30 percent woke companies. This is so the funds can get investors like Calpers, the California retirement fund, to buy their product. The funds are assigned an ESG/DEI compliance number. These thirty percent companies where all losing money because they spent it on “the environment and social issues.” I’m selling off the funds at a loss. I hate where our entire civilization is going. I can’t wait for all of us to wake up.


7 posted on 06/21/2023 5:27:08 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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On the road to “equity.”


8 posted on 06/21/2023 5:28:22 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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It certainly could be debated that the cause of the drop student education was the COVID isolation. It could very well be related directly to the refocusing of the union teaching community on ESG, DIE, and other racist and gender policies. It may very well be that COVID started this empowerment, but it isn’t the cause of reduction in education of the students.


9 posted on 06/21/2023 5:29:56 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The power of the press is not in what it includes, rather, it's in that which is omitted.)
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Oh yeah, they’ll know all their pronouns

And their favorite rap artists

And their favorite Lady Gaga songs

And lots of “facts” about “Global Warming”


10 posted on 06/21/2023 5:29:57 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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--- "National test scores plunge, with still no sign of pandemic recovery"


This is the future of our land. "Pathetic. I'll bet they can recite all the “genders” though."

The next generation of scientists, engineers, researchers, medical personnel, professionals in so many fields will all be able to recite "all the genders" and register their being offended by "microaggression" at every turn. Brought to American by Democrats and public employee unions.

11 posted on 06/21/2023 5:32:08 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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Does anyone know if such scores include the kids kept home and home schooled — to avoid the indoctrination and corruption of the public schools?
If not, mebbe the averages dropped ‘cause only the kids from uncaring parents came back in — and they are NPC’s.


12 posted on 06/21/2023 5:36:40 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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The inspiration to excel in K-12 has been dampened by ignoring test scores and bogus grades to help out the lazy and entitled students.


13 posted on 06/21/2023 5:39:07 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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Don’t blame it on the pandemic. Test scores have been falling for decades. Government school teachers and administrators are reaching their critical mass, e.g., full potential of destruction. Teachers and their unions were the ones that denied the science and refused to go to work. And no, doing a half ass job at home compared to their normal half ass job is not work. It is fraud. Taxpayers deserve a refund paid by the teachers.

Government schools need to be shuttered and everyone with an Ed degree prohibited from being 100 yards from children.

14 posted on 06/21/2023 5:40:57 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself.)
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Are you sure it’s was only 30%? Nearly every large business has ESG, DEI and other woke crap programs.


15 posted on 06/21/2023 5:44:27 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself.)
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I can’t wait for all of us to wake up.

So you expect everybody to give up their smart phones?

16 posted on 06/21/2023 5:45:15 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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This sounds ‘racist’.


17 posted on 06/21/2023 5:47:52 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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There were ten companies in the fund. The three that had been consistently losing value for five or more years had in their corporate websites a focus on ESG/DEI above all else. The others paid lip service in that they were constantly looking for ways to recycle, not pollute, etc. All of them had consistent earnings and share value increases.


18 posted on 06/21/2023 5:48:09 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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Are there anti-woke funds? Alternatively, look for funds or ETF that shorts woke companies. SQQQ shorts the Nasdaq 100. I’d say the Nasdaq 100 is pretty darn woke.


19 posted on 06/21/2023 5:54:01 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself.)
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But, but, these chilluns have been ‘eddikated’ by ‘eddikators’ with real college degrees in ‘eddikashun’.

The only group more contemptable then modern educators are our modern woke generals. That utterly dispicable Space Command woman general should be shot into the sun...ignorant s***.


20 posted on 06/21/2023 5:56:14 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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