Here’s one more reason to detest teachers-unions and other special interests who prioritize everything but getting the kids to learn: US high-school seniors in 2024 posted the worst results on record in reading, and about as bad in math.

This, when research has conclusively proven how to get those scores soaring — if we can get the education “stakeholders” out of the way.

The bottom line of the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress report is beyond ugly: 12th-grade math scores last year were the worst since the current test started in 2005, and reading the worst since the NAEP itself started in 1992.

A mere one in five (22%) seniors tested as “proficient” in math, and just a third (35%) in reading.

Both figures dropped two percentage points from the last 12th-grade

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