taken over by drag races, drifters, critics are slamming the soft on crime approach. in chicago, kevin graham, and louisiana senator bill cassidy, both will be joining us in moments. john: begin with the fox news alert to kick off america reports. former president trump s legal team set to square off in court moments from now. both parties awaiting to hear whether a special master will be granted to review documents seized in the mar-a-lago raid. that court hearing scheduled to happen right now. hello, john roberts in washington. going to beat you to it, sandra. happy friday eve. sandra: and great to be with you. sandra smith in new york. trump s legal team slammed the doj for opposing a third party review. john: the department says trump has no standing, claiming the records belong to the government and review has already been completed. jonathan turley standing by with his learned analysis moments away, but begin with david spunt in west palm beach outside the court
we have failed them. they missed a lot over the last several years. it was suspected and now it is confirmed in these latest reports. yeah, devastation is the right word, sandra. we had been making slow but steady progress in math and reading over the last 20 years, we lost it all during covid, we lost it all. some of us, dr. saphier, a few other people, said in the summer of 2020 these kids are not going to get sick from this, they are the most protected, it s the old people you got to worry about, but the schools stayed closed. unions insisted on closing them, big city schools, particularly, stayed closed the longest. the reading scores are back to where they were 30 years ago. this is really a disaster. so the kids can t read, they go out in the street, maybe they can find these colored coated
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At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site.
I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching. All the charts are becoming dull approaching nominal, if you accept the “new normal” of cases, for example.
Still whoops. I guess we’ll see if Biden abandoning masks provides sufficient incentive. There’s also been a lot of discussion about polling that shows different uptake between Republicans and Democrats, and across identities. But since about a month ago, the curve shapes have been in synch by region, arguing for a more uniform (national) explanation. Perhaps supply. Or class?
welcome back. growing concern that american schools are in crisis. a new assessment shows math and reading scores for elementary school students are on the decline with 2 out of 3 children not meeting the standards for reading proficiency. education secretary betsy devos calls the numbers devastating. she s blaming the education establishment. this comes as a new study finds teenagers spend more than seven hours per day on their phones. could it be that that is to blame? dana, let me start off by saying that student achievement numbers are basically flat since 1992. so that s a long time. betsy devos says, hey. the schools aren t delivering to these kids. the contract argument comes from people like rosa diorio, and she says we need to spend more money from the education department to improve our schools. what do you think?
they are much easier and quicker to digest than a book. and, you can get a lot done besides reading in the library. you can t have school choice. but i m going to send my son or daughter to an elite very expensive private school. everybody else can go to a public school and they can get bad test scores. that s hypocrisy. i m a proponent of that. but emily, in fact the council on big-city schools says the big school city districts are doing a little better. this kind of thing, this is the kind of thing that jesse was talking about witches race and class. if it s the case where you are in a low income area in a minority, but also if you are living in kentucky or west virginia, you are a poor white kid to come the schools