CNN CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell February 16, 2022 19:51:15 archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
one particular study looked at third to 8th graders, they said we re going to take a look at their achievement assessment, and look at this, in math down 10 percent tile points, in reading, down 5 percentile points, and it s the hardest hit among minorities and the youngest minorities. look at 3rd graders on math. among hispanics, down 17 percentiles, among blacks, down 15 percentile points, among whites and asians, they re not down nearly as much, but still 9 and 9 percentile points in math among 3rd graders. clearly there s been a real decline because of covid when you compare 2021 to 2019 which was obviously a much more normal school year. i assume there s an income element behind the numbers. absolutely an income element. if you look at the low poverty areas versus high poverty areas, median student, math third grade, in the low poverty areas it s down but just 6 percentile points, and the high, 17
not to mention a city where 80% of 8th graders don t read at grade level. taking in kids from a country with a 38% literacy rate and trust me that number is generous. so, chicago can t even take care of its own kids and we have expect chicago to take care of parentless afghan children. what in the world could go wrong? joining me now is victor davis hanson the author of the upcoming book the dying citizen. and i do very much look forward to reading it everything you say, victor, is thoughtful. in this particular case, we welcome afghans who fought alongside us. we also know that the vast majority that came are coming are headed to our country weren t in that category per se were at risk. now you got kids going to chicago. do we have a system set up to absorb them properly? no, i don t think so. i think children in chicago who
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nearly 330 years ago in salem, massachusetts, it is exactly what was happening. mass hysteria led to 20 people being killed and hundreds of others being put on trial for supposedly practicing witchcraft. since then, dozens of those convicted have been cleared. for some reason, 22-year-old elizabeth johnson jr. was never exonerated. do not worry. a group of 8th graders are on the case. civics class at north andover middle school, quote, pain stakingly researched johnson and what they would need to do to make sure she was fully pardoned. that research led a state senator in massachusetts to introduce legislation to clear johnson s name. for the record, she was convicted and sentenced to death. her punishment was, eventually, thrown out. but as one of the 8th graders notes, despite the witch trials ending, the superstition remained. quote it s not like after it ended, people didn t believe in witches, anymore. they still thought she was a witch and wouldn t exonerate her. their civics tea