NAEP test scores for America’s most vulnerable students have collapsed — and the timeline tells the story mainstream media won’t: the “Great Awokening” is failing the very kids it claimed it was trying to help.
A recent New York Times article accidentally admits what conservative education reformers and frustrated parents have long warned: academic standards in America are collapsing — and it’s the poor, working-class, and disadvantaged kids who are being hurt the most.
In a piece titled “The Pandemic Is Not the Only Reason U.S. Students Are Losing Ground”, the Times finally acknowledges that the nation’s lowest-performing students began falling behind years before COVID — right around 2013. That timeline is key, because it coincides not only with the decline of the Bush-era No Child Left Behind legislation but also the rise of radical progressive dogma in public education — a cultural shift critics have called the “Great Awokening.”
NAEP, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, data show that from 2003 to 2013, even the bottom 10% of test takers — the kids most in need of educational support — were slowly gaining ground. But starting around 2013, that trend reversed. Since then, the lowest scorers on math and reading tests in both 4th and 8th grade have steadily declined, with the drop accelerating after 2020.
The University of Colorado is holding a Sexual Education Camp this Summer for 5th/6th/ 7th&8th Graders through its “Renee Crown Wellness Institute”. Grooming much? “The programs, like Sex Ed Summer Camp, (i) promote social and emotional learning through sex education that is delivered outside the confines of school district standards”.
Will there be homework??? 😀