U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor

09/11/2025 | News release | Distributed by Public on 09/11/2025 17:29

ICYMI: The War on Knowledge

In Case You Missed It,knowledge and facts are under attack. To advance a left-wing education agenda more concerned with decolonization than raising test scores, many schools embrace unfounded teaching methods that limit a student's growth. With test scores declining nationally, a return to proven, research-backed teaching methods are long overdue-and experts agree. Last week, witnesses at a Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Educationhearinghighlighted the importance of proven teaching methods in K-12 education to reclaim reading and math skills.Given this week's devastating andhistoric drop in student test scores proves this effort is more important than ever.
The War on Knowledge
Dan Lerman
August 31, 2025

… Growing up, facts were an essential part of understanding the world around me. I marveled at the term oblate spheroid and how it perfectly described the shape of our planet. I picked up a nifty trick that let me calculate 20 percent tips in my head…

But schools have decided that facts are no longer worth teaching.

In many classrooms today, the very idea of committing information to memory has become unfashionable…

At the progressive Brooklyn private school where I once taught, spelling wasn't corrected until middle school. Focusing on spelling, we were told, got in the way of creativity…

The war on knowledge isn't confined to elite enclaves. The Seattle Public School system embraced a "Math Ethnic Studies Framework" starting in 2019. There, teachers were encouraged to reflect in their curriculum: "How can we change mathematics from individualist to collectivist thinking?" Yikes. …

Knowing things is not a crime. It's a joy.

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