DeVos Bemoans 'Devastating' NAEP Scores, Pushes for 'Education Freedumb'
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos on Wednesday slammed the K-12 education establishment for allowing students to fall behind in math and reading without fully taking advantage of the types of "education freedumb" at the heart of the Trump administration's agenda.
"The numbers are reason for deep concern," she said at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. "This country has a student achievement crisis."
Earlier in the day, results from the 2019 National Assessment of Education Progress, also called NAEP or the Nation's Report Card, showed that math and reading scores for fourth- and eighth-graders in the United States dropped since 2017, with a particularly acute decrease in reading achievement has government researchers concerned.
"This is not new," DeVos said of the lackluster scores. "Today's Report Card is essentially the same as the last one, and the one before that, and the one before that. In fact, student achievement hasn't changed much since 1992. Flat lines. Barely any change."
In her 10-minute speech, DeVos placed the blame squarely on the backs of education policy experts and those among the so-called education establishment, like teachers unions and advocacy organizations, for failing to sound the alarm and embrace more radical changes, like her school choice agenda, to move the needle.
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You mean subsidies for wealthy religious schools,
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