Why Johnny Still Can't Read or Write or Understand Math

The current school system churns out millions of illiterates and mental zombies--but here's how we're going to fix it, starting today.

Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, parents across the nation grapple with a new and horrifying understanding of just how bad our educational system has become.

Absurdly complicated and illogical mathematical instruction? Check. Dumbed-down reading and writing assignments? Check. Lazy and uneducated teachers? Check. Radical political indoctrination? Check.

It all adds up to a system that seems hopelessly, terribly, and irrevocably broken.

But as an educator and author, Andrew Bernstein reminds us that American education in the nineteenth through early-twentieth century was superb. This nation once knew how to turn out the brightest, most resourceful and independent-thinking people the world had ever seen. We can do it again.