Once upon a time, many moons ago, I was asked to teach a course to new analysts on Wall Street. The large amount of material to cover and the limited amount of time allotted during their 30-day training period were absurd. But what was even more absurd was that there was no cell phone ban.

Here were these wiz kids who had just gotten their shot at the major leagues. They thought they had the world in their hands. What they had in their hands was a cell phone. I might just as well have been speaking in outer space, an airless place where sound does not travel. Continue reading →

August 4, 2023 ~ Not one incoming eighth-grade student at LeBron James’ I Promise School in Akron, Ohio, has passed a state math test in over three years, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. Students have not passed the state’s math test since the third grade, per the report.

The inaugural class was in the third grade in the 2018-19 school year. In addition to disappointing math test scores, only 8% of I Promise students tested proficient in English. As sixth graders in the 2021-22 school year, the inaugural class scored a 0% in mathematics and 3.1% in English language arts.

The 2022-23 report cards will be released in the coming months. Akron Public Schools administrators have already confirmed the class was at 0% in seventh-grade math as well. Equally important, grades have declined since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue reading →

          Tribute to the Teachers ~ Alexandra Nechita, 1995

The predictable consequences of the right wing’s war on public schools are being felt as educators leave their communities – and their profession.

When Rosalyn Sandri returned to teach English at her high school alma mater, she never imagined it would end in a forced resignation. Only three years after stepping into her Texas classroom, she walked out of it for the last time. She’d never see her students again.

“They didn’t even let me say goodbye,” she said.

The week before her dismissal had been unremarkable – long days spent grading essays and assigning homework. In September 2024, Sandri, 33, had started publicly transitioning as a transgender woman, something she said her fellow teachers and students welcomed kindly. She shared her journey on TikTok, including one video documenting the euphoria of being called “ma’am” for the first time. Continue reading →

Artificial intelligence is making it even easier for college and high school students to cheat.

As more and more students learn to use ChatGPT and other AI tools, teachers increasingly have to decide if an assignment was written by a human, according to Axios.

“I have to be a teacher and an AI detector at the same time,” Stephen Cicirelli, an English professor at St. Peter’s University in Jersey City, New Jersey, said.

Any assignment “that you take home and have time to play around with, there’s going to be doubt hanging over it,” he said. Continue reading →

A federal judge blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from carrying out his executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and ordered it on Thursday to reinstate employees terminated in a mass layoff.

U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston at the behest of a group of Democratic-led states, school districts and teachers’ unions issued an injunction, opens new tab blocking the department from moving forward with a mass termination announced in March of over 1,300 employees, which would cut its staff by half. Continue reading →

As cellphone bans in schools are gaining steam in dozens of states, one lawmaker is taking it to the federal level by proposing legislation leading to cellphone-free schools.

Freshman Virginia Democratic Rep. Eugene Vindman has introduced the UNPLUGGED Act, which the lawmaker describes as the “first step in restoring quality education” by removing cellphones from classrooms.

The movement to ban the technology from classrooms has gained bipartisan popularity by several state lawmakers. State leaders on opposite sides of the political, ideological spectrums appear to have found common ground, saying phones in the classroom are distractions and contribute to mental health issues. Continue reading →

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My 12-year-old came home sobbing last week after months of weight-shaming by classmates. The teacher’s “solution”? Forcing a hollow apology that only fueled more cruelty. When I demanded action, the vice principal shrugged: “Kids will be kids.”

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Parents are rightly concerned about what is happening in our “public” schools. Crazed “educators” are encouraging impressionable children to “transition” to another sex, as if such a thing was possible. Students are taught that sexual promiscuity is a good thing. They are brainwashed to accept socialist attacks on our free enterprise system.

What can we do about this disaster? The Trump Administration and anti-woke Governors like Ron deSantis have tried to solve the problem by issuing directives to the schools to eliminate the noxious programs and give parents more say-so about what their children are taught. But teachers who have been indoctrinating our children are well-entrenched, and it will be extremely difficult to curb their baleful influence. Continue reading →

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 →