Angela Morabito is spokeswoman for the Defense of Freedom Institute and a visiting fellow at the Independent Women's Forum. She served as press secretary at the United States Department of Education, she came up through the Atlanta-area school system, and she spends most days making the case against the teachers unions. This is her first appearance on the show, and she stays for the full hour.
Robert McNeily, Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action, co-hosts the full hour. Jenny Beth Martin hosts.
Key topics:
- The University of Michigan's largest college will stop putting first-semester freshman grades on the official transcript, while the registrar keeps those same grades for athletic eligibility, financial aid, and academic honors
- Morabito on why the stated mental-health rationale does not hold, and what she calls college with training wheels
- Two former Metro Nashville teachers who say administrators directed them to change failing grades to passing ones, one of whom was her school's teacher of the year and has now left teaching
- Why Morabito calls it academic fraud, and the Atlanta eraser parties that ended in racketeering convictions
- A Berkeley teaching professor of mathematics who published her own students' readiness numbers, where the most common score was zero
- The calculus student who could not solve seven x minus five equals nine
- Seven in ten Berkeley calculus students arrived ready before 2020, fewer than half afterward
- More than a thousand University of California faculty signing a petition to restore standardized testing, including more than two thirds of the system's mathematics faculty
- Why the University of California ignored its own academic senate recommendation in May 2020 and dropped the entrance exam anyway
- Taxpayers paying twice: once for the K-12 education that failed the student, again for the federally backed loans
- The Department of Education's twenty directed investigations into passing the trash, and the Defense of Freedom Institute report behind them
- The argument that the SAT measures wealth, and Morabito's answer about which advantage a capable poor kid can actually overcome
- A CBS News and YouGov poll of 2,287 adults finding 58 percent of Democrats view socialism positively and 71 percent of college-educated Democrats do
- Civics proficiency for high schoolers running under one in four, and what that means in a voting booth
- One in three American men over 15 neither working nor looking for work, and male labor force participation down to 66 percent from 73 percent in 2006
- Why Morabito says pulling competition out of schools hurts everyone but hurts young men most
- Mississippi going from forty-ninth in reading and fiftieth in math in 2013 to ninth and sixteenth today, on roughly half of New Jersey's per-pupil spending
- Mississippi's Literacy-Based Promotion Act, the read-by-three law, plus literacy coaches and three screenings a year
- Where the SAVE America Act stands after a five-week Senate recess, and the eleven senators who filed statements saying they would have voted against going home
- Laken Riley, and the officer who says he arrested the same man six months earlier
Timestamped breakdown:
00:00 — Cold open: the most common score was zero
00:59 — The theme: when big government gets involved, the results are not good
02:22 — The Supreme Court, mail-in ballots, and citizenship verification
04:19 — Primaries in Florida, Alaska, and Wyoming
05:52 — Iran's army chief puts a price on American soldiers
06:32 — Twenty-five denaturalization complaints in two weeks
07:31 — The heart of the hour is education, and meet Angela Morabito
08:26 — The University of Michigan stops putting freshman grades on transcripts
12:48 — Nashville: teachers say they were told to change failing grades
21:57 — Berkeley: a calculus class learning middle school fractions
29:07 — The Department of Education moves against passing the trash
29:40 — What passing the trash actually means
31:30 — The case against bringing back the SAT
33:50 — Two years to drop the test, and how long to get it back
36:22 — Final thoughts: school choice and the 2027 scholarship tax credit
39:50 — An alarming new poll on socialism
44:11 — One in three American men out of the workforce
46:40 — Raising twins through the same school system
48:52 — The woke era ripped competition out of schools
50:46 — Mississippi: from dead last to ninth in reading
54:48 — Thank you to Angela Morabito
55:47 — Where the SAVE America Act stands
59:57 — On losing a battle and refusing to quit
01:00:25 — August 17, 1943: Patton reaches Messina
01:02:14 — What happened to math at Berkeley happens everywhere
01:02:59 — Your job for today
01:04:53 — Laken Riley, and the officer who had arrested the man six months earlier
01:07:13 — Closing
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