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Weingarten Blames Screens, Not Herself, For Falling Test Scores
Weingarten Blames Screens, Not Herself, For Falling Test Scores
Authored by Aaron Withe and Tina Snider via RealClearPolitics,
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten is sounding the alarm about the decade-long decline in student test scores, pointing to screens and devices as a culprit. She's calling it a "call to action."
She left out the part about how she helped cause the problem in the first place.
For two years during the COVID pandemic, Weingarten and the AFT fought aggressively to keep schools closed. In July 2020, as the Trump administration urged...
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