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A masked elementary student / Getty Images After two years of pandemic-disrupted learning, nearly every state saw fourth- and eighth-grade students’ math scores plummet, the Education Department reported Monday.
The average math scores for students in 43 states and jurisdictions fell sharply in 2022 compared with 2019, with the remaining 10 seeing no significant improvement or decline, according to the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as the Nation’s Report Card . The average math score dropped 5 points for fourth graders and 8 points for eighth graders compared with 2019. Public schools across the country also saw an average 3-point decrease in reading scores for the same grades. Reading scores matched the NAEP’s 1992 assessment, and math scores are back to 2003 levels, wiping out decades of progress.
The NAEP report is the latest and largest analysis of the pandemic’s alarming impact on American students. An August report from the Associated Press showed that virtual and hybrid learning has left students significantly less prepared for college. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, who said last year that keeping schools closed “wasn’t a mistake,” is now concerned how the next generation will fare on the international stage.
“This is a moment of truth for education,” Cardona said . “How we respond to this will determine not only our recovery, but our nation’s standing in the world.”
“It’s a huge deal,” Fordham Institute president Michael Petrilli told the Wall Street Journal. “We have lost a huge amount of the progress that we have been making over the course of decades and it’s going to take years to catch up.”
While the NAEP report is “not designed to identify the causes of performance differences,” National Center for Education Statistics commissioner Peggy Carr said the drop was expected given pandemic disruptions, as well as behavioral and […]
Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
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JD Rucker