A new IDEA would focus on student success, and reserve special ed for the truly disabled.

Humanities professors can teach students to resist AI cheatbots and learn to read, write, converse and think.

Teachers are seeing more middle and high school students who lack basic reading skills.

Teaching knowledge and vocabulary helps students learn, but education professors prefer "engagement" to learning.

Relying on AI to do the math for you is "a recipe for idiocracy."

U.S. students' future earnings -- and the economy as a whole -- will be much lower because of declining achievement in math and reading.

Ford can't find auto mechanics -- for $120,000 a year. Most high school graduates don't know enough math (or read well enough) to succeed in job training.

A third of high school graduates (or less) are ready for college math and reading, but a majority will enroll in four-year colleges.

Should we worry that young people are spending less time reading for pleasure and a lot more time watching YouTube videos?

Let's learn from schools where disadvantaged children are becoming proficient readers.

Teachers should teach students how to read grade-level books instead of matching them with texts at their comfort level, says literacy scholar Timothy Shanahan.

The NEA's online courses favor progressive fads over teaching.

Doing what works -- and avoiding fads and ideology -- would improve learning dramatically.

Twenty percent of high school graduates have trouble reading anything more complex than a restaurant menu.

Schools want to teach "critical thinking" without teaching knowledge. It can't be done.

"Back to basics" won't help Northern schools catch up to Southern Surge states in reading. It takes a lot more.

We "think and read less, and see and feel more."

Two-thirds of Americans don't read well enough to evaluate scientific or medical claims.

Education reforms are working in the South, and they can work in blue states too, if there's political leadership.

If students don't learn facts, they won't be able to understand what they read or think deeply or critically.