Posted on 05/05/2015 5:18:15 PM PDT by yuffy
Results of the “Nation’s Report Card” released this week by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) show that only 18 percent of 8th-graders are “proficient” or above in U.S. history, and only 23 percent are proficient in civics.
Despite hundreds of billions of dollars poured into education programs in the United States via the U.S. Department of Education, the “Nation’s Report Card” states that 8th-graders’ average NAEP scores in U.S. History, Geography, and Civics demonstrated no significant change since 2010 when students were last assessed. In geography, just 27 percent of U.S. 8th-graders performed at or above the proficiency level on the NAEP assessments.
Among white, black, Hispanic, and Asian students, Asians scored highest, with 33 percent proficient in U.S. History, 44 percent in geography, and 40 percent in Civics. White students are at 26 percent proficiency level in U.S. History, 39 percent in geography, and 32 percent in civics. Only 6 percent of black students scored at the proficient level in U.S. History, 7 percent in geography, and 9 percent in civics, while Hispanics were at 8 percent, 11 percent, and 12 percent, respectively.
A breakdown between students who attend public versus private schools finds that only 17 percent of 8th-graders who attend public school reached the proficiency level in U.S. History, 25 percent in geography, and 22 percent in civics, while 31 percent of those students assessed who attend private schools were proficient at U.S. History, 44 percent at geography, and 38 percent at civics.
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Supposedly Charles “Evasive” Hughes and certainly Theodore Roosevelt would have gone to war even before Woodrow.
Large intractable institutions can lose their legitimacy seemingly overnight. Some examples are the Protestant Reformation, American Revolution, slavery, and Jim Crow. The government's system of K-12 single-payer schools is not an exception.
I am hopeful. Some form of vouchers, tax credits, charters, Internet schools, and homeschooling are now found in every state and growing. Homeschooling is now reported by the government as being 4% of the school population. The real number is likely twice that.
It’s certainly your right to believe in miracles. Remember though for generations now Christian voters have participated in bond and tax elections with their own votes to expand the public school sector. Few conservatives are elected to local school boards. It’s rare to hear a school board member speak out against the established educational order.
Begs the question - what is the worldview of those setting the standards?
They can put a condom on a banana and know the million things that cause global warming.
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