Thomas Jefferson quipped that “a nation that expects to be ignorant and free… expects what never was and never will be.” A good education, encompassing not just the “three Rs,” but civics and the character traits that ensure success later in life, is a fundamental building block for citizenship, and important for the prospect of each individual student and the country as a whole. The goal of our massive public investment in K-12 and higher education should be to provide that opportunity to every child.
Lengthy school closures and deplorable remote instruction, often imposed upon students in response to teachers unions’ demands, resulted in two years of disrupted learning and sharp declines in reading and math scores. Students entered the pandemic with weak academic skills, with only one-third of students reading proficiently and…
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