re: Math and reading scores for 13-year-olds in the U.S. have hit the lowest levels in decades

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Performance has fallen significantly since the 2019-2020 school year, when the coronavirus pandemic wrought havoc on the nation’s education system. But the downward trends reported today began years before the health crisis, raising questions about a decade of disappointing results for American students.

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No doubt we've screwed up education in the US.

And parents should be livid with the push for remote learning during the pandemic. That hurts low income and working class students more than anyone. They just got farther and farther behind.

The solution is there, but there is no political willpower to execute on it because it will upset the teacher unions. Meanwhile, the few suburbs with excellent schools will continue to get more expensive, and private schooling will continue to get more popular (along with home schooling).
The costs of having kids in the US will continue to grow because we've allowed the wrong people to take control over public education.

The far left has thrown the baby out with the bathwater around schooling. Everyone else has just reacted to these idiotic policies that exist to protect the unions. You can't innovate when you have to kowtow to the unions or federal interests. School boards have to be more sensitive to the interest of their community, the parents, and the motivations of those families.