On Thursday’s broadcast of “MSNBC Prime,” American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten argued that eliminating the federal Department of Education will lead to a situation like the learning loss we saw during the coronavirus pandemic and said that we
Hundreds of thousands of people across the midwestern and eastern states were without power, and even more were stuck at home instead of going to work and school, on Monday morning as a historic winter storm dumped — and continues to dump — several inches of snow on them.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight,” New York Times Health Policy Correspondent Sheryl Gay Stolberg stated that “infectious disease experts” worry about NIH Director nominee Dr. Jay Bhattacharya because during the coronavirus pandemic, he opposed things like “school closures and
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy discussed his advisory on parental stress and said that while there are many reasons for increased parental stress, “we’re still living with some of the aftereffects” of the stress
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) stated that she would handle the coronavirus pandemic differently if she knew then what she knows now, but “We did not know it was respiratory in nature. We
After lockdowns during the pandemic, children who were babies and toddlers are now “academically and developmentally behind.”
Mothers are back to work in droves in Biden’s inflated economy after the government shuttered businesses and closed schools during the pandemic.
Several New York school districts will be letting students out early or stay home altogether on Monday due to the upcoming solar eclipse.
On Tuesday’s edition of NBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports,” host Hallie Jackson discussed a new study on the learning loss caused by COVID school closures and acknowledged that politics played a role in school closure policies, but also stated that people
Randi Weingarten blames a worldwide drop in math scores on the COVID-19 pandemic despite fiercely lobbying against in-person learning.
The New York Times editorial board has finally admitted that coronavirus-related school closures “may prove to be the most damaging disruption in the history of American education” in a Sunday opinion piece.
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” National Education Association President Becky Pringle responded to a question on whether schools stayed closed too long by stating that “we needed to follow the science.” Co-host Willie Geist asked, “So, with the benefit
The far-left PolitiFact, a disgraced site that fabricates fact checks to protect Democrats, was exposed as the liar it is and will always be by a Twitter “Community Note.”
On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN Tonight,” American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten stated that she doesn’t “know if it was right or wrong” for Europe to prioritize opening schools over bars and restaurants and responded to a question on
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Big Money Show,” Illinois State Sen. Willie Preston (D) reacted to a report that 55 Chicago public schools have no students who are proficient in math and reading by stating that “we
Overdose deaths more than doubled between 2019 and 2021 for those aged 10 to 19. Suicide attempts by the young jumped by 40 percent between 2019 and 2021.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CBS Mornings,” Vice President Kamala Harris stated that President Joe Biden has poor poll numbers because we had the coronavirus pandemic, and among other things, “Children lost very significant gaps in terms of their educational process,
The mainstream news media failed to do it during Tuesday’s State of the Union address, so it fell on actor-comedian Rob Schneider of all people to hold President Joe Biden accountable for his comments about COVID lockdowns.
Up to one in four teenagers who lived through Britain’s on-and-off lockdowns now have mental disorders, data released by the NHS has revealed.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) is facing mockery after her audio conveniently cut out during a question about her coronavirus policies.
There must be no so-called “pandemic amnesty” in the wake of draconian lockdowns across the EU, a representative within the bloc’s parliament has said.
Randi Weingarten, president of the powerful American Federation of Teachers (AFT), backed a call by the Atlantic on Monday to declare an “amnesty” for those who pursued mistaken policies on COVID-19 that led, among other things, to harm to children.
Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon spoke with Breitbart News about how Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) is “gaslighting” Michigan voters by falsely claiming that Michigan school closures only lasted for three months during the pandemic.
New data shows pandemic-driven school closures caused plummeting reading scores and the largest decline in math scores in history.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” CNN Contributor and Brown University Economics Professor Emily Oster stated that due to the “tremendous failure by adults” in handling schools during the coronavirus pandemic, we will see the impacts of learning loss
On Monday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics in the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education Peggy Carr stated that school closures “may have had some contribution” to the drop in test scores
On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith,” National Assessment Governing Board member Dr. Marty West reacted to the drop in test scores shown on the National Assessment of Educational Progress by stating that while “states where schools that
Jake Tapper took a beating on social media for suggesting that no “national conversation” happened over school closures.
Babies born during the early months of COVID lockdown in Ireland are less capable of speech and other forms of communication compared to children born before the pandemic.
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” New York Times Senior Writer David Leonhardt said that the crisis of the large and unequal learning loss from school closures during the coronavirus pandemic has been undercovered. MSNBC Contributor Mike Barnicle asked, “I would submit
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” New York Times Senior Writer David Leonhardt stated that the issue of learning loss from school closures during the coronavirus pandemic “will be a lifelong problem” for the current generation of children that amounts to “a
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, is attempting to deflect blame for promoting school closures that crippled American students’ educations.
On Monday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics in the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education Peggy Carr stated that she doesn’t know “if there was a lot of choice” when it
On Monday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics in the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education Peggy Carr responded to a question on whether there’s a better way to handle education in
Schmidt pointed a new report which showed how 9-year-olds saw the largest average score decline in reading since 1990.
Protect the Public’s Trust, a government ethics watchdog, is suing the Department of Education in an effort to discover the level of influence teachers’ unions and other special interest groups had on keeping schools closed during the coronavirus pandemic.
The reading ability of fourth-graders in Germany has dramatically dropped since pre-pandemic times, a study has found.
Tuesday marks Election Day in San Francisco for the recall of three school board members by irate parents who are angry at the local school district over the interminable closures of the coronavirus pandemic, which lasted longer than in other cities.
The number of illiterate six- and seven-year-olds in Brazil surged by 66 percent from 2019 to 2021, which is a time period coinciding with prolonged school closures across Brazil due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Tuesday.
The Bangladeshi Education Ministry extended an existing closure of its public and private schools this week through February 20 citing concerns about the spread of coronavirus, “raising eyebrows” among some observers as the decision coincided with the federal government’s easing of gathering restrictions for non-essential business events, such as trade fairs thronged by thousands of people, the Associated Press (AP) reported Thursday.
