For generations, America produced innovators, inventors, and independent thinkers—people who challenged authority, built industries, and made this country the most powerful force in the world. But today? The average high school graduate can barely read at an eighth-grade level, lacks basic financial literacy, and has no clue how their own government works. This wasn’t an accident. It was designed.

Through a series of calculated decisions – removing civics, gutting traditional academics, replacing knowledge with indoctrination – they have deliberately dumbed us down. And the most infuriating part? We paid for our own destruction through taxpayer-funded education, massive teachers’ unions, and globalist influence over curriculum.

This is the blueprint of how they did it – and how we break the cycle. Continue reading →

…and do you believe that this is ONLY happening in my State? ~ Editor

Standardized testing reveals the students in at least thirty (30) Illinois Schools CANNOT READ at grade level. Yes, you read that correctly; precisely ZERO students at those schools can read at grade level. Continue reading →

The cost-saving measures also include closing all offices in places including New York, Boston, Dallas, Chicago, and San Francisco.

                         The U.S. Department of Education in Washington on June 10, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

The U.S. Department of Education on March 11 announced that 1,315 employees – about half its workforce – will be laid off within 90 days as part of its ongoing cost-saving measures.

A senior official told reporters in a press call that the staff reduction addresses redundancies in the communications, human resources, information technology, and other offices within the department.

The affected workers were to be notified via email at 6 p.m. on March 11. The Washington, D.C., office will be closed on March 12 for safety protocols, and the senior official said the workers are expected to work remotely with full pay and benefits through March 21. They will then be placed on administrative leave, with pay, through June 9. Continue reading →

Herein I explore the extent of the WHO’s intrusion into the sphere of education which it appears to be using as a strategy for the delivery of its child sex agenda.

The process to legislate the amended form of Relationship and Sexuality Education (RSE) into the school curriculum has seen the diversion of much-needed administrative and teaching time and resources away from education fundamentals such as reading and numeracy, the standards of both of which have fallen alarmingly. The decline in reading and numeracy standards caused by the impact of Covid-related policies has seen the UK achieve its worst standards since 2006 and the US the worst in its history. Continue reading →

Public school districts across the nation keep doubling down on DEI, even if it could cost them millions.

This is happening despite President Donald Trump’s recent executive order that bars federal funding for schools and universities that promote DEI. Education reform was among his main campaign promises.

Examples of these programs include mandatory diversity training for teachers and administrators, affinity groups or extra help reserved for Black students only, and curriculums where the desired intent is to teach students that America is inherently a racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, or transphobic nation. Continue reading →

…since education gained a foothold in government?

United States Department of Education

Donald Trump’s administration continues its work toward dismantling the Department of Education.

The Department was founded in 1980 under President Jimmy Carter. One year later, Ronald Reagan began his first term. His administration tried to dismantle it but was not successful. Now with Trump in the White House, could success be around the corner? Continue reading →

“Yo’ Adrian – da Kid can’t Read!”

From the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress – a test given periodically to the nation’s students – the 2024 reading and math test given to 4th and 8th graders has further demonstrated the need for immediate change to America’s system of education. Continue reading →

A record number American children can’t read, according to alarming new data… But they blame in on COVID?

        Underscoring academic – 40 percent of fourth grade children now lack basic reading skills

In 2024, 40 percent of fourth graders and a third of eighth graders had ‘below basic’ reading skills, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Meanwhile, only 23 percent of fourth graders and 26 percent of eighth graders were deemed ‘proficient’.

These results mark record lows since the reading assessments started in 1992. Continue reading →

As we begin the new year, pessimism is rife in the liberty movement. Many are struck by a pervasive and overwhelming feeling that the enemies of freedom are winning and our movement is in disarray. However, not all news from recent times has been grim. A particular sphere of American politics stands out as a place where liberty is winning.

The first half of the 2020’s has seen an enormous exodus from the government education system. While decreasing enrollment numbers can be partially attributed to a decline in birthrates, enrollment in private schools and home education is certainly a major factor. In fact, this movement away from government education is so drastic, that many public schools are being forced to consider shutting down entirely. Continue reading →

After the recent presidential election victory by Donald Trump, perennial calls to end the US Department of Education grew louder. With Republicans gaining control of the US Senate, and retaining control of the US House of Representatives as well, the prospect of eliminating the department became more plausible.

But don’t hold your breath. Continue reading →

Studies show that kids are spending a lot less time reading these days. In 2020, 42% of 9-year-old students said they read for fun almost daily, down from 52% in 2012. Seventeen percent of 13-year-olds read for fun daily, down from 27% in 2012. Among 17-year-olds, 19% say they read for fun, down from 31% in 1984.

It’s safe to say that modern technology is a big reason why kids aren’t reading as much. A recent report found that teenagers spend an average of 8 hours 39 minutes per day on screens, compared to 5-and-a-half hours for pre-teen children. So, it’s no wonder they don’t have any time left to crack open a book. Continue reading →

The New York Times reported December 4 that math and science test scores for U.S. fourth and eighth graders have been essentially stagnant since 1995. Nor have they have been stagnant near the top – lots of countries outrank us –  but rather in the middling middle. American elementary/middle school students perform behind Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, England, Ireland, and Poland.

“’This is alarming,’” opined a Department of Education commissioner. Continue reading →

The founder of a Christian ministry that addresses cultural issues says the absent teachers demanding a 9% pay raise need to wake up.

As AFN previously reported, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is demanding the increase in pay, even as four in 10 teachers have been “chronically absent” this year and already enjoy a median salary of $95,000.

Now the teachers union is slamming The Chicago Tribune for calling them out and for posing the question, “How much more again does their union expect?”

“It’s time for the Tribune to reflect the facts,” the CTU argues. “Have they considered how often educators – especially the 75% of whom are women – are on the front lines of both their classrooms and their families? Does the Trib think workers don’t deserve sick days, FMLA and parental leave? Educators don’t just teach; they sacrifice, care, and persevere.”

Linda Harvey, President of Mission: America, says, “The union needs to wake up”!
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An American flag hangs in a classroom as students work on laptops in Newlon Elementary School, Aug. 25, 2020, in Denver. – AP

Recently, writing in the Acton Institute’s Religion and Liberty Online, a Texas high-school teacher, Auguste Meyrat, brilliantly formulated the most precise description of education in post-COVID America: vegetative education.

As he writes, “Teachers in past decades have been faced with two choices: educating students with challenging material and frequent grading or engaging them with fun projects and participation grades.”

What is he talking about?

What does modern classroom instruction look like these days?

To put it mildly: A lot of it is not very good.
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A Rhode Island mother has slammed the Department of Education (ED) for failing the nation’s children, especially her two daughters who were diagnosed with dyslexia.

Jody Baldwin Stone told DailyMail.com that she struggled for years to get her daughters into special education programs, even though federal benchmark assessments indicated they were in need of ‘urgent intervention.’

‘I do think the level of bureaucracy in the Department of Education right now is so outrageous that you can’t imagine the hoops they make families go through to receive special education,’ Baldwin Stone said. Continue reading →

Parents texting or calling their kids during class is a major source of frustration for many teachers.

But that’s not the only way that parents are using technology to insert themselves into their kids’ K-12 classrooms: a number of educators report that parents remotely monitor their children’s laptops during class.

One in 5 teachers, principals, and district leaders say that parents are remotely monitoring their kids’ laptops during class at least once a month, according to an EdWeek Research Center survey of 868 teachers, principals, and district leaders conducted in June. Technologies exist that allow parents to monitor their children’s online activity or even remotely watch the screens of their kids’ school-issued laptops during the school day. Continue reading →

Ryan McMaken makes a convincing case on Mises Wire for abolishing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). But DHS is not the only executive branch cabinet department that has been occasionally mentioned as a candidate for elimination.

Aside from the US cabinet departments of State, Treasury, and Defense that date back to the earliest years of the nation, the names of other departments – Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs – do not typically roll off the tips of Americans’ tongues. Many of these departments and agencies could easily be considered candidates for elimination or consolidation. Continue reading →