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Schools beat: We Know How To Close This Gap
Test scores show American children misplaced enormous ground during COVID, and “Black and Hispanic students slid even further behind, widening gaps that were already troubling” — despite the fact that we all know it’s “possible to erase the racial achievement gap in less than two years, by applying simple reform principles to the worst-performing schools,” fumes Roland Fryer at The Wall Street Journal.
His analysis on “which practices truly boosted student learning” clearly confirmed: “What mattered most were five concrete, replicable practices: more instruction time, high expectations, frequent teacher feedback, data-driven instruction and high-dosage tutoring.”
Applying these rules in low-performing Houston faculties proved it might “close the racial achievement gap in math in under two years.”
This “can work anywhere, if we have leaders with the courage to act.”
Media watch: Damning Blackout on Charlotte
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“A video showing the murder of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on public transport in Charlotte, North Carolina, has sent shockwaves round the world,” observes Mary Harrington at UnHerd.
It’s additionally “reignited debate over the widening ideological gulf in news reporting,” notably given the “media omertà” as many shops failed to report the story.
Why? The lefty insists that “violence is preponderantly and unjustly perpetrated by white people,” particularly cops, towards blacks.
The video exhibits “no ambiguity”: a “senseless attack on a defenceless lone white woman by a black man.” “Progressive” shops “would do well to consider that a reputation for objectivity turns not just on how a story is reported but also if it is,” particularly when it “challenges comfortable ideological narratives.”
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From the proper: Some Vax Mandates Make Sense
The medical institution’s pandemic-era “lies and failures” give Americans “every right to be skeptical” about public health directives, acknowledges the Washington Examiner’s editorial board.
But “Florida is making a grave mistake” in eliminating all vaccine mandates. “Vaccines have been saving American lives since” the appearance of the smallpox vaccine 200 years in the past, and the Supreme Court upheld vax mandates in 1905.
States have “been using their police power to keep epidemics under control ever since” as a result of “vaccine mandates work.”
Florida will let mother and father “opt out” of vaccines based mostly on “religious and personal beliefs” — a “ban on vaccine mandates” that places “all of Florida at risk.”
The state is “playing Russian roulette” with this unscientific determination.
Free-speech patrol: Facebook’s Promising Turn
“The free speech community needs to support Meta” because it strikes to enable more speech on its platforms, argues Jonathan Turley at USA Today.
“Many in the free speech community saw Meta as the embodiment of the anti-free speech movement.”
But after Elon Musk highlighted “extensive coordination by the government with academia and social media companies to censor speech,” Meta “founder Mark Zuckerberg apologized” for Facebook’s previous censorship and pledged “to restore free speech protections.”
And X “has roughly 600 million users,” Facebook, “more than 3 billion.”
Thus: “Musk slowed the progress of the anti-free speech movement. Zuckerberg could reverse the direction.” “If Meta stays on this course, we could finally have a coalition of the willing to fight for free speech on a global scale.”
Democrat: To Beat Trump, Need a Real Agenda
New polling “shows President Trump’s approval rating has fallen to just 46 percent” as “public opinion on how he’s handling the economy and crime is worsening,” notes Douglas E. Schoen at The Hill.
But Trump nonetheless “maintains a durable floor of support” that Democrats shouldn’t ignore.
To win the midterms, “they’ll have to assemble an aggressive plan on inflation, security and border control — not just MAGA opposition.”
And social gathering leaders should “recognize that resistance is not enough to win the White House.” Voters need “practical solutions to their everyday problems.”
Trump’s weak point offers Democrats a likelihood “to reset their message and develop an effective agenda.”
But his “decline in the polls can swiftly disappear if Democrats retreat to old habits.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
