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https://news.yahoo.com/big-drop-in-history-and-civics-scores-for-american-students-shows-extent-of-pandemic-learning-loss-143857732.html
Big drop in history and civics scores for American students shows extent of pandemic learning loss

American students are failing to learn basic facts about their own nation’s history or how its government works, according to a closely watched assessment whose results were released on Wednesday.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, is a nationwide test known as “the Nation’s Report Card” for the sweeping view it provides to educators and policymakers of learning gains — or losses.

The history and civics tests were administered to eighth graders across the country in 2022. Eight thousand children took the test and were graded on a scale from 0 to 300.

On the history assessment, American students scored an average of 258, a 9-point drop from the 2014 test— and a 5-point decline from the 2018 results. Students are now scoring, on average, a point lower than they did when the NAEP history test was first given in 1994.

Only 13% of students showed proficiency in knowledge of American history, a 5-point drop from 2014.

For civics, test scores fell from 150 to 153, the first decline registered by NAEP and a disheartening return to where American students were when the civics assessment began in 1998.

Only 22% of students showed civics proficiency, a worrying reality that could lead to further erosion of trust in democratic institutions.

https://news.yahoo.com/music-trumps-ears-whitewashing-jan-095618486.html
Music to Trump's ears: Whitewashing Jan. 6 riot with song

The song is simple and tinny, but that hasn’t stopped it from being embraced by former President Donald Trump and his allies in their campaign to rewrite the history of the deadly Capitol riot.

The tune, “Justice for All,” is the Star-Spangled Banner, and it was sung by a group of defendants jailed over their alleged roles in the January 2021 insurrection. Recorded over a prison phone line, the national anthem sounds more like a dirge than celebration and is overlaid with Trump reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

Despite its low fidelity, “Justice for All” has garnered a lot of fans. Trump, a Republican, played it at a recent rally in Waco, Texas, as images of Capitol rioters flashed behind him on a big screen, and the $1.29 song last month briefly vaulted to No. 1 on iTunes, supplanting such recording artists as Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift.

Experts on extremism and propaganda say the song is another example of how Trump and his most ardent allies are trying to gloss over an avalanche of evidence proving the Capitol riot was anything but an act of patriotic resistance.

And it shows how such revisionists have dug deep into authoritarian playbooks that rely heavily on the use of national identity to sway public opinion. In this case, Trump and his allies are ironically relying on America's most patriotic song in their efforts to whitewash an insurrection that contributed to five deaths and left more than 120 police offices injured, experts said.

“We should not be surprised that this propaganda is effective, but it is shocking to see this in this country," said Federico Finchelstein, chair of the history department at the New School for Social Research in New York, an expert in authoritarian disinformation. "What they are demanding is that reality be put aside for the loyalty of the leader. And that leader in this case is Donald Trump.”

When I watch movies or shows it's because I want to get away from the reality of the life and get drawn into the fantasy world or fictional world created by movies and shows.
Life is hard and I don't want the movies to tell me the same, I watch them to relax my mind.
What about you guys what do you prefer in a movie the fiction shown in some movies or the realism shown in some other?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-celebrity-letters-book_n_640aeaece4b09c5c6d6e2123
Donald Trump Cashes In On Other People’s Letters With New $99 Book

Former President Donald Trump is releasing his second book since leaving the White House — a $99 edition that reprints private letters sent to him by celebrities and politicians over the last 40 years.

“Letters To Trump” will feature correspondence to the reality TV personality-turned-politician from former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon; Trump’s 2016 Democratic rival Hillary Clinton; chat show legend Oprah Winfrey; Princess Diana; Russian President Vladimir Putin; ex-Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro; North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and others.

Trump’s own commentary appears alongside each note.

This question is for mothers, but others can chime in too.

The financial reality for most families with children today is that both parents need to work to remain financially stable. My perception has always been that most mothers want to work and would prefer not to be home full time with their children. But a Gallop poll actually showed the opposite, that a majority of mothers, whether employed or not, actually would prefer to be home with their children if they could afford it.

I'm curious how the mothers of GAG feel. Please share your opinions.