Iwas chatting with the head of a private school last fall when she made an interesting observation. Like many private schools, her school experienced a flood of parents in the wake of Covid who saw what their children were taught during the online public school classroom experience and wanted to give them a far better education.

However, this headmistress reported such alarm and concern were not as present in newer parents. In fact, those with children born during Covid seemed oblivious to the many education problems unmasked during the pandemic and were happily trotting their children toward their first years in the same old forms of substandard education.

But recent data shows that concerns about American education are very justified. Nowhere is this clearer than the recent data releas

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