KNOWLEDGE IS THE FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
— MELANIA TRUMP (@MELANIATRUMP) March 27, 2026
Only 22% of America’s 12th-graders are proficient in mathematics and only 35% in reading, according to NAEP’s 2024 national sampling. Our nation’s average scores have reached their lowest levels in 20 years.
America must…
KNOWLEDGE IS THE FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
Only 22% of America’s 12th-graders are proficient in mathematics and only 35% in reading, according to NAEP’s 2024 national sampling. Our nation’s average scores have reached their lowest levels in 20 years.
America must strive to improve. Today, we can take proactive steps to enhance our children’s academic growth by leveraging AI as a tool in the education process.
Our teachers are already embracing the use of AI to improve K-12 academic performance. 2,700 schools participated in the K-12 AI Workshop I hosted with Zoom Communications on January 16, 2026. The White House Presidential AI Challenge (K-12) has participants from all 50 states, plus Puerto Rico and Washington DC.
Access to the classical studies is now instantaneous, because of AI - literature, science, art, philosophy, mathematics, and history - Humanity’s entire corpus of information is available in the comfort of your home.
AI provides a personalized experience, adaptive to the needs of each student. Our children can develop deeper critical thinking and independent reasoning abilities, plus boost their analytical skills and problem-solving capabilities by using AI as a tool.
The biproduct - a more well-rounded lifestyle for our children – freeing up time for being with friends, family, playing sports, and developing interests beyond school. But we must balance our tech optimism with caution. The safety of our next generation is always paramount.
Shouldn’t teachers use AI to deliver the most current, accurate knowledge to your child? And if private tutoring isn’t an option, shouldn’t technology empower students to strengthen their weaknesses at home?
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And that is a large part of the reason that they believe gender is truth, and thus, women can be men and men can be women. It's all an opinion.
They do not know the difference between migrant vs. immigrant or migrant as an alien.
Truth does not compute with them because they possess fewer words and fewer concepts. They not only have not been taught English, much less diagramming and sentence structure, but worse, they play fast and loose with definitions. They actually think feelings equal truth. Guess what teaches Truth? Bring it back. Along with rewards for good behaviour and family spankings for bad behavior.
Even Clarence Thomas had to relearn God's and his Grandpa's truths after he went to college. Clarence had gone to college with Truth on his belt, but college marxist ideology was already alive, well and embedded in college. He accepted the college ideology even though it opposed what Grandpa had taught him. When he returned home to Grandpa, Grandpa saw what had happened. Grandpa put his foot down and retaught him, but, this time, more emphatically.
Thus, Grandpa re-taught him and re-taught him well. He threw him out. And Clarence had to relearn truth all on his own. He did exactly that. These kids today, not so much. They need help, one way or the other.
Jea9, I agree with you. The same thing has to happen all over the United States. We need to establish re-education camps so that people can be retaught just like Clarence Thomas was.
re-education camps can be achieved by creating national standards that states must achieve and prove. Proof must be via either national exams and/or other means, what, I am not sure. But, we now have, on top of lower previously existing language skills in some southern states, so poor grammar and speech is embedded into homes. I am a firm believer that all contemporary books should not even be considered, that students should return to the classics, such as "Wuthering Heights,""The Scarlett Letter,""Anne of Green Gables," or others similar to that. Those classics delve into social stata, wealthy vs poor, educated vs un-educated, and life's difficulties, one way or the other. Remove phones so students turn pages and learn what margins are for, how much space is necessary in a book for pages to actually turn. So, reading 300 page paperback books also is a lesson in page layout, inside versus outside margins, no hyphenations, when to use commas, semi-colons, colons, not to begin a sentence with 'and,' and many other linguistic skills. I will never forget having students who didn't know what margins were for, and couldn't read a ruler or write their names. This is garbage. And in this country, is horrifying. Counting change...., another lack. The human mind is a terrible thing to waste, and especially, when it is from God, meant to do well, serve well, achieve well. Sad.
Jea9, I'd be a little careful with lamenting education in "some southern states". These southern states are solid red and we like to keep it that way. When you look at educational attainment, radical left states especially in the Northeast lead the way. Do you really want an America with this kind of education? Or do you prefer southern states after all, where the states make sure idiotic stuff like evolution, gender identity and equality, reparations, etc etc etc do not make it into the curriculum as singular facts?
I would like excellence in teaching across all 50. Just saying what I have seen. We want red, of course. But, problems exist due to overall wealth of a community. Wealthy areas pay teachers better and so attrack better teachers. Family structure could be one thing or the other, whereas the poorer areas probably have closer and better family structure but may have lower overall educational achievement. I have seen students from wealthy areas compete in (forget the name) scholastic achievements, and their team win, while Black kids from poor areas, even with loving, passionate teachers, not win, for lack of overall presentation, lack of speaking and grammatical skills, the ability to use adjectives to describe their own work, and overall, to just not be competitive. Discrepancies exist more in the southern states from what I see. States like Florida, can compete. States like Arkansas, less so. At this point, this is what I have seen. It always begins with the family, which entails 2 parents and the examples that they set. If parents don't encourage learning as a lifestyle, then students come into high school and even college, with a major disadvantage. Nationwise, we are not all in the same place educationally and there are trends in education also, that stink, such as 0's Common Core. That was a..... plan.....by. hussein 0 to dumb down our kids more. The Communist Manifesto details differences between cultural and social and economic groups, we should be that adept in understanding and turn education into warfare one way and the other. Maybe working from the end desired result, backwards, in order to also enhance family responsibilities and citizen responsibilities. IDK, but, we need something to change and soon and bigtime.
That's why places like the Southern Powerty Law Center exists in the south, why we have huge Muslim groups in the Bible Belt, why Muslims are trying to set up their cities in texas...because it's all solid red?
Ilona, yes, the southern states are solid red, which does not mean that the radical left isn't trying to change that but they have a loooooong way to go. As long as these states continue to control education, the radical left will not succeed. If we erode these states' abilities to control education as jea9 and you seem to suggest, these states may be as much lost as the states in the northeast are.
I've said for over 50 years that American education in general is lacking, it isn't designed to challange the child in healthy ways, to exercise their brains, to open minds. America wastes 4 years of a child's life by lingering in highschool, rather than to cram it all into the first 8 years. We assume children are overwhelmed if we challange them too much, but in reality they are overwhelmed by a lot of nonsense.
By the end of 8th grade kids should have everything they now get through 12 years, be ready to go to either trade schools or to college depending on what it is they desire to do with their lives. By the end of 8th, they should have a well rounded, strong base in history, arts, science, literature, languages, mathematics, etc. Important when they get out into life, they can have a decent conversation about most things with most people at different levels, an understanding of the world around them whether it's geography or space, so they may at will expend on any subject because they know where to look, what to look for when the interest strikes them. We need to bring back a demanding classical education, and yes, include the study of religions!
I'm not sure of that timeline but more inclinded to think all that takes the 4 yrs in high school to accomplish everything. I also think all trade schools should be after 4 yrs in high school. 4 years of English, Math. 2 of sciences. When I rented rooms 1 or 2 at a time, I had a Japanese young man, here to meet English critieria for beginning his Master's program. In Japan, they take English, Japanese and Chinese all 4 years of high school. He knew the Periodical table by heart. That is not necessary, but strong reading of classics, writing, math, European and American history. Speaking skills. The brain continutes to develop into the mid-twenties,with males lagging behind females to some degree. Education should work in tandem with the brain's development. I would also like to see, in grade and high school, hands in the dirt. Growing things that are edible and tie it in to cooking classes and feeding animals. An anti-digital focus. Mentoring assignments to teach responsibilities to others less advanced or blessed. Those are some of my thoughts. And I am adamantly AGAINST tech prep programs for high school kids, not until after 4 yrs of high school. I saw a real and concerning decline between tech students 15+ years ago compared to when I left teaching in 2020. A hazardous decline in overalll anything and everything, as the cultural rot has taken hold strong and stronger.
Classical education for all. And absotutely, the study of "religion,' with a clear teaching of religion vs faith, in the case of Christianity. Religion is political and if that were taught, it shouid correct the culture in several ways. Along with that, integrating the understanding of practices of deception, which could be tied in in multiple ways, history, religion and more. Science, too. All viable because we have been living through decades of deception and more. Good fodder for research papers in high school. We desperately need every possible way to take back ground from what wars have done, agencies have done, lack of family structure has done. They need to see with Eagle's eyes. It's a life or death issue at this point.
I don't agree! Languages come easy at a very young age, it should begin in kindergarten! I personally know many children who grow up with 2-3 languages from birth, never mixing them, speaking them without an accent! Common in Europe because the borders are close and programs in different languages bleed over borders. Americans always think that children aren't ready.....but in fact they certainly are ready much younger than we'd like to think. We just have to know what information they are ready for......especially when it comes to sex, but we don't tend to be so careful with that!
I look at the Amish community and the maturity level of the children and it's like it is in Europe. We cannot compare their education level because the Amish keep it very basic, way below where it should be, but their kids are extremely responsible at a ver6 early age! Also elucation in religion is one thing, people should learn different religions because they are all over the world and they need to understand the basics of them.......faith is not he business of the schools, that is the job of the families and churches! I agree religion is political, and understanding the different religions leads people to political correctness, the better understanding of the world. Most of highschool as most of college is a waste of time!
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