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"The past decade may rank as one of the worst in the history of American education." The “Mississippi miracle” should force a reckoning in less successful states and, ideally, a good deal of imitation. But for Democrats, who pride themselves on belonging to the party of education, these results may be awkward to process. Not only are the southern states that are registering the greatest improvements in learning run by Republicans, but also their teachers are among the least unionized in the country. And these red states are leaning into phonics-based, “science of reading” approaches to teaching literacy, while Democratic-run states such as New York, New Jersey, and Illinois have been painfully slow to adopt them, in some cases hanging on to other pedagogical approaches with little evidentiary basis.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
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I believe it was this website where I read that Cook County is 25% illiterate?
Sliding? Illinois has arrived.
Illiteracy is the goal. If the next generation can read and think coherently, then their socialist plans are doomed by common sense. They are moving towards this quite well by lowering standards in Illinois and saying this magically makes students “proficient”.
Illinois needs to emulate what successful states are doing to improve education. And, here’s breaking news for Illinois: lowering standards doesn’t mean improving education.
Did we ever think we would see an article titled America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy? In The Atlantic?
Congratulations Becky Pringle, Randi Weingarten and all the teachers in America. You have accomplished the damn near impossible.
It really is a milestone of sorts. They even blamed the left for the most part. We’ve been pounding on this for some years here at Wirepoints as have a few others outside of the regular press, like IL Policy; better late than never than never that the problem is now at least being recognized.
Mark, I recall Years ago the movie, “Kids aren’t cars”, which opined about the Detroit Public School system. Recently, we had the sobering movie, “Local One” come out Over 2.5 years ago, yet Brandon Johnson Still got elected mayor of Chicago.
So, the “problem” has actually Been recognized for years, but the voting electorate is simply inured to it or the Public Employee Unions are too strong to overcome.
CPS is leading the way down this slide. Their enrollees have almost reached rock bottom!
CPS spends close to $30,000 per year on each student, so it is not the money that is the problem. Many teachers take off as many days as they can. Students are just passed through the system. The system is set up to provide good paying jobs, great benefits, and huge pensions at a young age. No one seems to care about the quality of education. Stacey Gates sends her children to private schools for good reason.