"American schoolchildren's educational attainment has stagnated in the 21st century, according to data from two recently updated assessments of reading, math, and science skills.
Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), released in November, and from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), released Tuesday, indicate that American kids have seen minimal improvement in their academic abilities since the early to mid-2000s.
"For all of these ambitious efforts we've seen unfold, they don't seem to be making much difference, ...
...education experiments of the past decade, and in particular of the Obama administration, have had minimal benefits on student achievement and may even have hindered the most disadvantaged students.
Over the past decade or so, NAEP scores among African-American students, particularly boys and particularly in major cities,
have actually declined. That means that the much-bemoaned "achievement gap" between black and white students—which much of education policy is focused on closing—may be widening."
American Education's Great Stagnation
Simple question: what is the political perspective of those running the school system???