This week, New York decided to scrap this failed model and return to the basics of teaching kids to read by sounding out words.

The problem is, the way we teach literacy isn’t the only mistake we continue to make in our schools. Our kids spend a lot of time on irrelevant nonsense. …

Post-pandemic, kids and their education need to be a top priority. Academic subjects should be front and center.

Feel-good baloney that no one remembers how or why it got in the curriculum in the first place should be canceled.

[Much of the education curricula these days aim at validating adults rather than educating children. One story today featured a teacher who got a police complaint filed on her for promoting gay literature to middle schoolers, and she complained that she’s a good teacher who prepares her students for “social action.” Adults can figure out “social action” for themselves. Primary and secondary education is for education, not indoctrination. — Ed]