YOUTUBE (CNN) - 'Students can’t read:' teachers sound the alarm over America's reading crisis
Teachers across the US are citing growing concerns over what they're saying is a reading crisis. CNN's Isabel Rosales reports.
HUFFPOST (U.S. News) - Families' Interest In Their Kids' Education Is Falling Around The Globe
The decline in interest comes as school systems in many high-income countries struggle with plunging test scores.
WASHINGTONPOST (Lauren Lumpkin) - U.S. students’ scores on international test reach lowest point in 2 decades
Students around the globe earned among the lowest average scores ever in science, reading and mathematics on the Program for International Student Assessment.
AMERICANGREATNESS (Bryan Hyde) - Gallup Poll: Satisfaction With American K-12 Schools Hits New Low Point
Americans’ dissatisfaction with the quality of K-12 education in the U.S. has dropped to 32 percent, a new low in Gallup’s 27-year trend and down […] Source
JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - Whitmer Woes: Michigan test scores fall to new lows despite increased spending
Test found 61.8% of all third-graders scored below proficient on the state’s English language arts test.
JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - Illinois students being failed by low academic standards, lawmaker says
Education whistleblower and author Geno Young says a tenured Hillcrest teacher told him the school was testing at about a fourth-grade level across academic subjects. Hillcrest has an about 81% graduation rate.
AMERICANGREATNESS (Larry Sand) - De-grading America’s Children
When teachers assess students, they must accurately report what students learn. Yet too often, this doesn’t happen. Grading for Equity, written by Joe Feldman, a […] Source
AMERICANTHINKER (American Thinker Blog) - The biggest problem in higher education
By Matthew G. Andersson It isn’t racial quotas, political ideology or tuition prices: it’s bloated internal costs.
DAILYCALLER (Mary Rooke) - ROOKE: State Has The Courage To Do What Whole Country Needs
‘time for other states to address a problem recognized nationwide’
NYTIMES (Matthew Haag) - Reading Scores Drop for N.Y.C. Students Amid Revamp of Literacy Program
The declines nearly wiped out gains made in the state exams last year. New York City school leaders promised a review of the results.