The American public education system is failing its students.
11 concerning stats about public school every parent should know 👇
11 concerning stats about public school every parent should know 👇
1. Grades are going up, but test scores are going down.
Good grades are no longer a reliable indicator of academic progress.
Good grades are no longer a reliable indicator of academic progress.
2. There are entire schools without a single student who can do reading and math at grade level.
3. Youth suicides and suicide attempts drop off during the summer and holidays and peak at the start of the school year.
4. Public school spending keeps increasing, but test scores remain the same.
5. Across the nation, swaths of public school students are testing far below grade level, in every subject.
These stats from Oklahoma are, unfortunately, not abnormal.
These stats from Oklahoma are, unfortunately, not abnormal.
6. The benchmark for mastery in a field is 10,000 hours of practice.
Yet kids spend 15,000+ hours in public school, and learn almost nothing.
50% of graduating high schoolers get the same math scores as high-performing 3rd graders.
Yet kids spend 15,000+ hours in public school, and learn almost nothing.
50% of graduating high schoolers get the same math scores as high-performing 3rd graders.
7. Public school enrollment is declining across the country.
8. Gen Z 12th graders are more pessimistic about the world than any generation in decades.
9. Enthusiasm in students drops off dramatically between the early elementary and high school years.
10. Some schools no longer even require literacy and numeracy in order to graduate.
11. Only 26% of 8th graders are proficient in math.
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