Failing at the Basics Week in Education
Your weekly report on education news.
While students are being force fed a steady diet of social justice and DEI, they’re not getting the basics. This is a problem.
- Walz’s Minnesota: Almost 70 Percent of Eighth Graders Not Proficient in Math
- Profs at Elite Colleges Shocked to Learn Students ‘Don’t Know How’ to Read Books
Maybe this is part of the problem.
- Supposedly ‘Family Friendly’ Furry Group Meets at Southern Illinois U.
- Faculty Members at Arizona State U. Condemn ‘White Ownership’ of Shakespeare
- School in Washington State Gets Tagged With Swastika, Principal Calls it a ‘Symbol of Peace’
The Equal Protection Project is becoming very active.
- Our Legal Challenge To UVA BIPOC-Only Program: “It’s Indefensible in 2024 to be Discriminating Against Somebody on the Basis of Their Skin Color”
- U. Virginia BIPOC Alumni-Student Mentoring Program Challenged By Equal Protection Project
- Equal Protection Project Calls On American Bar Association To Fully Comply With SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling
This is still happening.
- Portland State U. Considers Divestment After Anti-Israel Protesters Trash School Library
- Harvard’s Antisemitism Problem is Worse Than Most People Know
- Protesters at UC-Berkeley Shout Down Conservative Israeli Lawmaker’s Talk
Some schools are now going neutral.
- New Stanford President Declares ‘University’s Purpose is Not Political Action or Social Justice’
- Anti-Israel Students Object to Yale’s ‘Institutional Neutrality’ Proposal
This looks like the beginning of something.
- Boise State U. Women’s Volleyball Team Forfeits Game Against Opposing Team With Male Player
- More College Female Volleyball Teams Won’t Play San Jose State Due to Male Player
This guy again?
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Help me out here…
Thomas Jefferson was educated how?
Perhaps that model works better than a government/union extortion racket.
Just my humble opinion though.
How were any people educated in his time?
John Taylor Gatto:
“By 1840 [more than a decade before the opening of the first tax-funded government schools on the modern model, in Massachusetts] the incidence of complex literacy in the United States was between 93 and 100 percent. … In Connecticut only one citizen out of every 579 was illiterate and you probably don’t want to know, not really, what people in those days considered literate; it’s too embarrassing. Popular novels of the period give a clue: ‘Last of the Mohicans,’ published in 1818, sold so well a contemporary equivalent would have to move 10 million copies to match it. If you pick up an uncut version you find yourself in a dense thicket of philosophy, history, culture, politics, geography, astute analysis of human motives and actions, all conveyed in data-rich periodic sentences so formidable only a determined and well-educated reader can handle it nowadays. Yet in 1818 we were a small-farm nation without colleges or universities to speak of. Could those simple folk have had more complex minds than our own?
“By 1940 the literacy figure for all states stood at 96 percent for whites. 80 percent for blacks. Notice for all the disadvantages blacks labored under, four of five were still literate. Six decades later, at the end of the 20th century, the National Adult Literacy Survey and the National Assessment of Educational Progress say 40 percent of blacks and 17 percent of whites can’t read at all. Put another way, black illiteracy doubled, white illiteracy quadrupled,” despite the fact that “we spend three or four times as much real money on schooling as we did 60 years ago.”
Current numbers indicate about a 20% illiteracy rate among US adults. The government reports cleverly present the racial divide as “the percentage of the illiterate population that is white/black/Hispanic” (i.e., as numbers rather than true rates) instead of “the percentage of whites/blacks/Hispanics that are illiterate,” in hopes it will be misquoted… and those hopes are realized, as MSM outlets happily misreport that illiteracy is largely a white problem, and blacks are most literate of all.
Back then institutional education was a luxury.
He was a true polymath like many of our Founding Fathers learning 4 languages and firmly grounded in the Greek and Roman systems of government which influenced his and the others in setting up our government.
Interesting to compare the various states,
Though comparing states, you need to break it down in sub groups/demographic groups (without trying to be racist) along with comparing rural vs urban vs inner city. Ie comparing apples to apples
the southern states tend higher minority populations and such there averages tend to be lower, while MN has one of the highest white populations, therefore should be in the higher performance tier.
MN performance has dropped from the top ten to 19th in the latest ranking. 19th being just above the “average”
However, each demographic group is doing worse than comparable demographic groups in the southern states.
Tim Walz looks like Barney Rubble.