Source: American Greatness
by Larry Sand
“The recently released EdChoice ‘Schooling in America’ survey finds that 56 percent of parents believe K-12 education is on the wrong track. Indeed, too many traditional American public schools are failing to fulfill their role. Parental unhappiness is certainly understandable, given that the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), aka the ‘Nation’s Report Card’, showed that in 2024, 12th-grade students scored their lowest in reading and math in decades. In math, 45 percent of high school seniors scored ‘below basic,’ the lowest level since 2005. In reading, 32 percent scored ‘below basic’, the lowest level since the exam’s inception in 1992. Among 8th-graders, 38 percent scored ‘below basic’ in science, meaning they couldn’t recognize basic facts, such as the fact that plants need sunlight to grow.” (08/19/26)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/19/escaping-the-educational-industrial-complex/