The evidence pointing to systemic failure in the U.S.’s education system is overwhelming — and I’m not just talking about the massive number of students who sit in U.S. classrooms year-after-year without learning to read or do math.
The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress, for example, our so-called Nation’s Report Card, found that nearly half (45%) of all 12th graders couldn’t do basic math and a third (32%) hadn’t mastered basic reading. We’re talking about the basic “knowledge and skills that are fundamental” to competency in a subject.
Remember, these were high school seniors who were supposedly just months away from being college and workplace ready.
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But the education system is failing us in another important way as well, despite the spending each year of massive amounts of money — an estimated $878 billion in fiscal 2025 alone —
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