Anyone who follows education news, or just has children in public schools, knows that we have an education crisis in this country right now.
Grade school students in multiple states cannot read or do math at grade level. The problem already existed years ago, but shutting down schools during Covid-19 made things even worse.
Now, some states in the south have discovered a cure for the problem – Going back to basics and teaching things like phonics.
It’s amazing. If you focus on teaching kids to read rather than telling them about social justice and gender theory, they actually learn to read. Who knew?
Kelsey Piper writes at ‘The Argument’ on Substack:
Illiteracy is a policy choice
This month, the Department of Education released its latest edition of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the standardized tests better known as the Nation’s Report Card. The results have left me blazing with rage.