An 8 percent lifetime ‘tax’ is coming for students
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/11/18/education-reform-achievement-gap-income/
Fundamental reform, not quick fixes, will save America’s education system.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/11/18/education-reform-achievement-gap-income/
Fundamental reform, not quick fixes, will save America’s education system.
The Big Fail: Student achievement has fallen off a cliff. And neither Trump nor the pandemic is to blame.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/public-education-failure-american-test-scores-trump-pandemic-liberals.html
Andrew Rice:
In middle school, a math teacher in the affluent suburb of Bethesda, Maryland, says some of his regular students cannot calculate perfect squares in their heads; some English-language learners in his summer-school class were still doing math with their fingers. At a STEM-focused magnet high school in New Jersey, an English teacher says her students used to take 20 minutes to read short stories in class; now the task consumes nearly a whole period. Harvard has introduced a remedial algebra course to address learning gaps in its incoming first-year students — and if they can’t do math, what does that mean for the rest?
“I’ve got kids who don’t know what the word seldom means or appoint or sanctuary,” says a veteran Bay Area high-school history teacher. “The pandemic didn’t do shit. It just stripped bare for suburban parents the reality of what was happening.”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/public-education-failure-american-test-scores-trump-pandemic-liberals.html
Andrew Rice:
In middle school, a math teacher in the affluent suburb of Bethesda, Maryland, says some of his regular students cannot calculate perfect squares in their heads; some English-language learners in his summer-school class were still doing math with their fingers. At a STEM-focused magnet high school in New Jersey, an English teacher says her students used to take 20 minutes to read short stories in class; now the task consumes nearly a whole period. Harvard has introduced a remedial algebra course to address learning gaps in its incoming first-year students — and if they can’t do math, what does that mean for the rest?
“I’ve got kids who don’t know what the word seldom means or appoint or sanctuary,” says a veteran Bay Area high-school history teacher. “The pandemic didn’t do shit. It just stripped bare for suburban parents the reality of what was happening.”
The Grade Inflation Problem:
https://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2025/11/time-to-address-grade-inflation-problem.html
https://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2025/11/time-to-address-grade-inflation-problem.html
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/american-adult-lower-iq-scores-cognitive-decline-technology-flynn-effect.html