NYU students complained that the class was too hard

K12 Education isn’t doing well and when they get to college they complain it’s too hard.

I was fired from NYU after students complained that the class was too hard. Who’s next? Behind a paywall. So only the wealthy will know why.

4th- and 8th-graders fell behind in reading and had the largest ever decline in math, according to a national educational assessment showing the devastating effect of COVID policies on America’s children https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/24/us/student-test-scores-nations-report-card/index.html

2022 The Right-Wing Attack on Public Education Began in One Elite Illinois High School
“I think it was the seeds of all this polarization taking hold.”
The ~~conservative~~ attack on public education article about what happened in 2017
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/10/the-right-wing-attack-on-public-education-began-in-one-elite-illinois-high-school/

IMHO: This is not a “conservative” attack it’s Republican GOP Theocratic Regime

Inside the Financial Holdings of Billionaire Betsy DeVos
Americans should take a closer look at the investments held by the secretary of education nominee and the troubling picture they paint.DeVos profited from student loan misery
DeVos has a connection to a major for-profit college
DeVos has investments at firms that also own for-profit colleges
DeVos dismissed early childhood education but profits from it
The $1 million-or-more mysterious education holding is her charter schools whe owns / and possible orphanages

2020 How Betsy DeVos and the Charter School Movement Are Brazenly Using Coronavirus Pandemic to Advance Their Agendas
Jeff Bryant: Another charter chain benefitting from DeVos’s generosity is Mater Academy, which received the second-largest grant of $57.1 million. Mater Academy is affiliated with for-profit education company Academica.

2022 ‘The results confirm our fears’: Federal school test scores dropped during pandemic
Those results mean notably fewer students could carry out simple reading tasks or understand texts, or handle arithmetic and early math problem solving.

2019 On the heels of a troubling “report card” on reading and math skills among American students, a global test of adult skills suggests older generations may echo those problems. Every three years, the PIAAC measures the literacy, numeracy, and digital problem-solving skills of “working age” adults, 16 to 65, in 38 countries, including 23 in 2011-12, and another nine in 2014-15. In both math and digital problem-solving skills, U.S. adults scored significantly below the international average
https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/americas-literacy-numeracy-problems-dont-end-in-k-12-global-test-shows/2019/11

The 2017 results of the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies finds that America’s adult workforce is no more skillful in reading, math, or digital problem-solving than it was five years ago, even though more students are graduating from high school.

AMERICAN ADULT LITERACY
TAGS: #adult functually illiterate, #reading, #literacy instruction, #Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) #CCC

BILLION$ RIPPED OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS INTO THE PRIVATELY OWNED CHARTER SCHOOLS

Charter School Movement

The original concept of the “сharter school” first originated in the 1970s by a New England educator by the name of Ray Budde. His idea was for groups of teachers to set up contracts or “charters” with their local school board to discover new approaches and ideas in the field of education.

1991
The charter school movement in the United States began in Minnesota in 1991 and spread rapidly in nearly every state within the United States in an attempt to provide competition for the traditional public schools.

Where was the first charter school in 1992?
When it opened its doors in 1992, St. Paul, Minnesota’s City Academy Charter School was groundbreaking, the first school of its kind in the country. The school started by recruiting primarily low-income students — many of whom had left other, more traditional schools.

2010
Diane Ravitch: The Myth of Charter Schools

2010 Diane Ravitch: No Child Left Behind, Reform Killing Public Education
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2010/03/25/diane-ravitch-no-child-left-behind-reform-killing-public-education

March 25, 2010, Diane Ravitch discusses The Death and Life of the Great American School System
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2010/03/25/diane-ravitch-no-child-left-behind-reform-killing-public-education

2016 The Attack on Public Education in California
Public education in California is under siege by people and organizations who want to privatize the schools, remove them from democratic control, and hand them over to the charter industry.
https://dianeravitch.net/2016/06/08/the-attack-on-public-education-in-california/
California has had some of the biggest charter scandals in the nation, starting with the collapse of the California Charter Academy in 2004, which went bankrupt and stranded 6,000 students. The state has for-profit charters, including the California Virtual Academy (CAVA), which was recently the subject of an expose by Jessica Calefati in the San Jose Mercury-News. CAVA is run by Michael Milken’s K12 Inc. It is one of the worst performing schools in the state, perhaps the very worst. But no action has been taken to close it.

Fascist Republicans
Lt. Col. Ivan Raiklin tweeted out a memo with the subject line “Operation ‘PENCE’ CARD – Dec 23rd-” on Dec. 22, 2020. The memo claimed that Pence was prohibited “from ‘receiving’ electoral votes from six fraudulently certified States” — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — and that the vice president “is also the sole plenary power that has the authority to make this determination.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-coup-2656456117/
Pedofile, Rapest and Human Trafficker Tim Nolan was Trumps campaign chairman in Kentucky also one of the original founders of Qanon NOW IN JAIL FOR 28 felonies
https://twitter.com/soi6robert/status/1583277570073587712
10 Trump Administration assocs who’ve been convicted of sexual crimes against children over the past 6 years including #AdamHageman 2 weeks ago
https://twitter.com/PeaceHopeful1/status/1583198127317667840/photo/1

Wall Street On Parade Financial Literacy

Wall street on Parade

Selective Inflation Increases Financial Gap by Jonathan A Weiss Esq.

2018 Financial Secrecy Score

Federal Reserve Spokesman Explains How It Creates Money Out of Thin Air to Pump Out to Wall Street
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2019/10/federal-reserve-spokesman-explains-how-it-creates-money-out-of-thin-air-to-pump-out-to-wall-street/

The Fed Fears an Explosion on Wall Street: Here’s How JPMorgan Lit the Fuse
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2019/10/the-fed-fears-an-explosion-on-wall-street-heres-how-jpmorgan-lit-the-fuse/

By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: October 28, 2019 ~
JPMorgan Chase is the largest bank in the United States with $1.6 trillion in
deposits from more than 5,000 retail bank branches spread across the country.
When it withdraws liquidity from the U.S. financial system, that has a
reverberating impact.
According to the filings that JPMorgan Chase […]

Remembering Mark Pittman, the One Journalist Who Would Have Been All Over the Fed’s Latest Wall Street Bailouts
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2019/10/remembering-mark-pittman-the-one-journalist-who-would-have-been-all-over-the-feds-latest-wall-street-bailouts/

https://youtu.be/GZkLXCZRBKY
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: October 25, 2019 ~
Today would have been Mark Pittman’s 62nd birthday. Pittman died of a heart attack at age 52 on November 25, 2009 in the midst of a pitched court battle with the Federal Reserve to obtain data on its secret loans to Wall Street.

Quietly, U.S. and Foreign Banks Have Increased their Borrowings from U.S.
Money Market Funds
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2019/10/quietly-u-s-and-foreign-banks-have-increased-their-borrowings-from-u-s-money-market-funds/

Barclays (Green), UBS (Red), Deutsche Bank (Blue) and Credit Suisse (Orange)
— Stock Price Over the Past Decade
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: October 25, 2019 ~
Memories are apparently very short at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The SEC seems to have forgotten that a run on money market funds holding bank commercial […]

What Are They Smoking at CNBC?
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2019/10/what-are-they-smoking-at-cnbc/

Headline at CNBC, Thursday, October 24, 2019
WSOP Staff: October 25, 2019 ~
Yesterday, the headline above appeared at CNBC. The headline writers there
must be living in an alternative reality.
Let us remind CNBC viewers what 2019 is actually shaping up to be: it’s the
year that the highest priced stock in the price-weighted Dow […]

2018 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in technology and engineering

2018 K12 NAEP Technology and Engineering Literacy (TEL)

https://twitter.com/naep_nces

Do U.S. students have the #technology & #engineering skills and knowledge they need to succeed in the 21st century? Find out in the newly released NAEP Technology and Engineering Literacy Report Card. https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/tel/

Students who are literate in technology and engineering can use, understand, and evaluate technology. They can understand the technological principles and strategies that are needed to develop solutions and achieve goals. This includes students being able to use various technologies to communicate and collaborate.

Technology and engineering skills are an integral part of students’ everyday lives and will be critically important as they continue their educations and enter the workforce. Since technology is also integrated into other subjects, students require strong skills in this area to excel in all aspects of their coursework.

About the assessment
The computer-based assessment, administered to eighth grade public school students nationwide, asks students to complete collaborative, multimedia tasks and solve practical problems based in real-world contexts. It focuses on three major areas:

Technology & Society
Students’ understanding of the effects of technology on society and the natural world, which equips them to grapple with related ethical questions.

Design & Systems
Students’ understanding of engineering design processes, including basic aspects of managing everyday technology such as maintenance and troubleshooting.

Information & Communication Technology
Students’ ability to use technologies for accessing, creating, and communicating information, as well as facilitating creative expression.

ARTS https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/arts_2016/

Report Card

Achievement Gaps Dashboard

State Profiles

State Performance Compared to the Nation: Data Table
Mathematics, Grade 4
Difference in average scale scores, percentage at or above Basic, percentage at or above Proficient, between all jurisdictions and National public, for All students [TOTAL], 2017

https://www.nagb.gov/naep-results/mathematics/2017-naep-reading-and-math-report.html

George Widener self-taught artist and calendar savant

George Widener (b.1962, Cincinnati, Ohio) is a self-taught artist and calendar savant who employs his extraordinary mathematical & calculating capabilities along with memorized census population statistics to create artworks based around significant dates and historical events. His works often employ complex date juxtapositions and bold numerical patterns that support an overarching theme like the sinking of the Titanic, one of his more prominent motifs.