In the continued inflation of American education, it is now admitted that students are getting higher grades on their college entrance classes for less effort and knowledge.
Education Next: The Dumbing Down of Advanced Placement Tests
The College Board, the agency in charge of the AP program, admits its questions are easier and passing scores have been lowered on key tests like the English Language exam. They justify the easier tests as an adjustment to a less demanding curriculum in high school and lowered expectations by colleges and universities. In other words, AP is simply adapting to a broad decline in educational standards.
Or to simplify: Grade inflation comes to the AP college admission tests.
Meanwhile, education costs continue to outpace inflation with lesser results.
While prevailing wisdom is that throwing more money at a problem leads to better results, Mississippi now leads in reading scores with funding per pupil far below states with far higher per pupil spending. That is, of course, because the money spent per pupil wasn't actually reaching the pupils.
The increase in Mississippi were due not to more dollars thrown at the problem but to reforms that focused on real results.
It is more than past time to stop inflating grades and dumbing-down tests and instead focus on actual reforms in our public schools. How about we stop just throwing money at administrators, bureaucrats, and teacher's unions and getting the same results and instead focus on reforms that work?
Maybe, as a modest suggestion, how about less DEI for kids and more learn to read for starters?
The Detroit Free Press: Eid celebrated by thousands in Michigan as war abroad dampens mood
Thousands of Muslims across Michigan celebrated Friday, March 20, the Eid al-Fitr holiday, marking the end of Ramadan, a month of spiritual reflection and fasting marred by wars abroad this year that affected many in metro Detroit.
Nice job Detroit Free Press on skipping right past the elephant in the article: three Islamic terrorist attacks in the United states during Ramadan, including one in metro Detroit a few short days ago.
No mention at all of that rather important local event, that most certainly "affected many in metro Detroit" funny, that.
Meanwhile, the 2026 Ramadan Hostility Scoreboard includes a worldwide total of at least 133 Islamic terrorist attacks with 499 people murdered in those terrorist attacks.
No other religion has quite the reputation and track record for annually going out and committing murder during their proclaimed holy days.
Remember how Obama giving Iran billions under a deal that specifically not limit Iran's ballistic missile development?
Remember how in addition to claiming they weren't developing nuclear weapons they swore their ballistic missile program was restricted to a range of 2,000 km?
Good times, those.
Anyone actually believed them was a credulous idiot, because yet again, not surprising anyone who knows about the Iranian regime, they lied.
They just launched two missiles at Diego Garcia, 4,000 km away.
While the two missiles failed to hit their targets, this is a their revealing a capability they had sworn they were not devleoping.
Fox News: Trump proven right on Iran's long-range missile capability as regime targets US-UK base, experts say
This officially puts Iran into the Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile Club, and they now have missiles that can reach Paris, London and Berlin. Hopefully that is a wake up call to European powers, and yet another reaosn to ensure the Mullahs do not remain in power.
So a former patron saint of the Democrats, Cesar Chavez, a historic labor and union leader feted and revered by the Democrat, with statues and streets named in his honor, is getting the Damnatio Memoriae treatment. This is complete with statues of him being covered up pending removal from their plinths.
Why now? After all, the allegations of his sexual improprieties date from the 1960s and 1970s, but as a famous Democrat and his usefulness of his legacy to the Democrats for both the Hispanic and union votes, he's gotten a complete pass.
Until now.
A couple possible reasons:
1. His very well-known stance against illegal immigration and its depressing legal workers wages is becoming very politically inconvenient at this time. Chavez was not just against illegal immigration, he was vociferously against it, even ordering the beating of the heck out of illegals who moved in on his farm workers union labor and reduced their wages - even forming his own "Border Patrol" to turn them back- and not with gentle processing, either.
2. One of his descendants, Julie Chavez Rodriguez is one of the éminence grise, the powers behind the throne, of the Democrat party. Her credentials include being a former campaign manager for campaign manager in
There's now videos online of the various police agencies clearing the synagogue and rescuing children from the school that were there at the time of the attack.
Unlike the Cowards of Broward or the Unqualified of Uvalde, they went about aggressively clearing the building and rescuing everyone, and ensuring everyone was taken out of the burning building. While they knew the attacker was dead at that time, having been pinned by the security guards leading him to shoot himself, the police didn't know if there were any other attackers still there and they searched and cleared the entire building.
They did a great job, got everyone out at serious risk to themselves, with quite a number of them suffering from smoke inhalation as they put their lives on the line to save innocents, and make sure everyone was out.
In short, the responding police agencies did their jobs, and did them well.
The pictures of the interior show the extensive damage from the fire.
The Detroit News: Temple Israel shows inside of synagogue in aftermath of attack.
It's going to be quite some time before the synagogue can be used again and it needs to be extensively repaired and renovated.
Then mayhaps the US is indeed winning, and decisively winning, the current conflict with Iran.
Al Jazeera: The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why
For Al Jazeera, the Qatari, pro-Iranian media to publish this piece means things are likely going very, very, well for the US in this conflict - so much so that the results can't be hidden:
- Top Iranian leadership dead and successors keep getting eliminated as they get announced
- Achieving Air Superiority on the way to Air Supremacy in the skies over Iran
- Iranian nuclear, weapons, and command and control and communication sites getting worked over repeatedly.
- Dismantling of Iran's air defense network, touted as some of the finest Russian and Chinese technology available.
- Sinking Iran's Navy wherever it can be found including it's mine-layers.
- Reducing Iran's ballistic missile and drone attacks by 90% so far
-Now playing whack-a-Basiji thug in the streets on demand via drone. Iranian citizens are reporting locations of Basiji checkpoints, and the US and Israel send drones over to whack them and thus save civilian lives from those thugs.
The Democrats and the Mainstream media both want the USA to lose and Trump to suffer a defeat in time to boost the Democrat's chances for the midterms. Party over country for them, every time.
In short by any metric the US and Israel are winning, and are on the way to winning decisively. Don't let the Democrats and the Media tell you otherwise.
Victor Davis Hanson puts it rather succinctly: Victor Davis Hanson: This Is A Surreal War, What Is Actually Happening In Iran Is Not Being Reported
Well worth a watch, that. In short don't be misled by claims that 2 weeks in we're somehow in a "forever war" and Iran is winning. It is not. But Iran's regime and the Left and the media are desperately hoping a propaganda campaign can save them and deal a defeat to President Trump, America, and Israel in spite of the facts on the ground and in the air.
