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♪ >> 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 t...

"the new york times" had linked two out of three children did not meet the standards for reading proficiency, abysmal results reflected the performance of about 6,000 students in reading and math whose core is made up what's called the nations of report card. can i show you just a couple of the reading and the amount the stats? if you look at 2017 and 2019 we do this test every two years, we are not making progress in fact we are back sliding under reading for both grades four and eight. then you go to math, slightly better for grade four from 40% to 41% but stagnant again over those two years...

>> dana: i was outraged for a lot of reasons on behalf of children and their parents. this is a national security concern going forward, you can't even graduate 50% of your students? that's an outrage. i might have had that wrong, it might be reading proficiency at 57%. betsy devos called it a crisis of student achievement. if you look at it since 1952, it's not like money hasn't been poured in to schools. you had to be able to show that it actually would make a difference. the other thing would be, you can do this test every two years. two years ago let's say that you were in the higher ranki...

Blessings for the future. >> what are is the biggest beneficiary? federal government spending, there is plenty of people that have taken that data and downloaded themselves and slice it in a million different ways. what's the biggest advantage you think is going to come from that? >> take education. some come from the state and local and the feds. as a citizen, i don't care where the money comes from. i may care how much taxes i pay, but what does it mean for my child or as a lower income person or do i get reduced and free lunch or special education resources if they child is disabled or do w...

Her whole record in michigan was about defunding, destabilizing and eliminating public schools. she used to say about the detroit public schools and dps, there was a group of people, republicans and democrats alike, who had a plan to rescue the schools, including making sure that charters had some accountability to children, meaning you couldn't have a charter operator get the state money of which they got $1 billion, pocket that money and then close the school the next day, leaving parents scrambling. and she refused to go along with it and she had the same power in the national government, m...