The average reading and math scores of American high school seniors fell to their lowest levels in two decades in 2024, according to new national data released last week.
The results, from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), found that, on average, reading scores for 12th graders were 10 points lower in 2024 than they were in 1992, when the test was first administered, and that math scores fell to their lowest levels since 2005, when the math assessment began.
The test, administered by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), which is part of the US Department of Education, assessed roughly 19,300 12th-graders in math, 24,300 in reading and 23,000 eighth-graders in science between January and March of last year.
A country that cares about their future will invest in their children. It’s another version of planting a tree that you won’t enjoy the shade of.
The ROI of investing in education in GDP, particularly early childhood education, is huge. Anywhere from 400%-1200% over 18 years.
So it’s clear that conservatives hate children even more than they love money.
What they love is control.
Money is but one means to that end.
That seems to be true of a lot of ideas that are deemed “socialist”. Invest in people’s welfare and it will be magnified.
Profits and growth are more measured in quarters not even years, let alone decades. They’ll gut it all today to show a profit this week.
I don’t doubt you, but do you have a source for that figure?
I have very little faith in this country caring about the future.