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For Too Many in Education, Charlie Kirk’s Assassin Is Exactly the Type of Person They Are Trying to Create

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Some serious self-reflection is due from those in charge of teaching our kids.

Recently, the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) released its 2025 report, assessing that there was no educational progress. Called the Nation’s Report Card, NAEP measures math, reading, and science performance in fourth, eighth, and 12th grades. Scores on all three tests administered in 2024 were down from 2019 results.

“Students from the class of 2024 had historically low scores on a major national test administered just months before they graduated,” as one media report described the results. Education Secretary Linda McMahon lamented that the “NAEP results confirm a devastating trend: American students are testing at historic lows across all of K-12.”

We send our kids to schools for six-plus hours a day. They’re being taught something. If it’s not reading, writing, math, and science, then what is it?

The hundreds of billions of dollars showered on schools (and teachers’ unions) have been unable to reverse the losses from COVID closures.

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