NAEP – California Globe

UC Berkeley Professor Discovers What Her Peers Built

August 22, 2026 6:00 amAugust 22, 2026 6:01 am

A University of California, Berkeley mathematics professor recently expressed public frustration that her college students arrive unable to handle basic skills—fractions, elementary algebra, the kind of material once expected well before high school graduation. The complaint is real, the classroom...

Normalize Excellence: Neither Mediocrity Nor Decline is Destiny

May 21, 2026 7:00 amMay 21, 2026 7:01 am

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results show a grim picture of academic loss. Between January and March 2024, 19,300 12th graders from 1,500 schools across the country were tested on mathematics. Among them, only 22% achieved math proficiency....

Classrooms First: California Must Stop Feeding Bureaucracy and Start Funding Teachers and Students

April 8, 2026 9:00 amApril 8, 2026 9:01 am

California pours enormous resources into public education from Transitional Kindergarten through community college, the TK-14 system. Proposition 98 guarantees roughly $125.5 billion in recent years for TK-12 and community colleges, with total TK-12 spending (all sources) approaching $149 billion annually....

LAUSD’s Budget Crisis Deepens: Attendance Plummets 40% While Spending Soars on Lavish Projects and Bureaucracy

February 17, 2026 3:03 pmFebruary 17, 2026 3:39 pm

As the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) grapples with a looming budget shortfall and plans for potential, but insignificant, layoffs, critics are rightfully pointing to a glaring mismatch: student attendance has dropped dramatically over the past decade, yet district...

Catholic Schools Succeed Where Public Schools Fail. Why?

October 1, 2025 10:38 amOctober 1, 2025 10:55 am

Recently released results on the National Assessment for Educational Progress, administered in most states, showed that Catholic school students scored much higher than students in the public schools. “On the 2024 NAEP eighth-grade reading test, Catholic-school students scored 20 points...

New K-12 Science Standards Compete with Woke Norms in American Classrooms

July 15, 2024 3:46 pmJuly 15, 2024 3:46 pm

Climate change advocacy, equity-based “scientific” inquiry, anti-racism approaches, diversity and inclusion… Political indoctrination permeates K-12 science education across the nation. Standards are lowered, the scientific method disregarded and classroom instruction politicized to promote conformity, mediocrity and activism. In 2019, fourth,...

Politicized Education Explains Steep Academic Declines and Big Achievement Gaps in California

November 3, 2022 2:50 amNovember 2, 2022 7:49 pm

Public education in California has reached a crisis point. While it is true that the Golden State has consistently trailed behind other states in standardized test scores, latest results for 2022 from the Nation’s Report Card show further declines in reading and...