It's the educrats, stupid!-----Why Johnny Can't Read

Reading and math scores are abysmal across the country, as national testing results keep documenting. - Stephen Moore

The apparent solution among the education establishment is not to challenge kids to stretch their minds and hit the books but rather to dumb down the curriculum so everyone passes. 

• I call this the "make everyone below average" solution.

Some schools are now no longer requiring kids in English class to read cover to cover the classic books that students have been reading for decades...

A case in point is what has happened at Alice Deal Middle School in Washington, D.C....

Alice Deal has decided to remove all full-length novels from their eighth-grade English curriculum. 

The educrats behind this strategy claim that moving from full-length books to section readings will better prepare students for high school...