The National Assessment of Educational Progress published its test results last week. The entire nation bombed. Every region, red states and blue, poor and rich, black, white, and brown — it’s a full-blown disaster.

The failure of our education system in the COVID era isn’t exactly news. During Zoom school, parents everywhere experienced firsthand the mediocrity of American education and its bizarre preoccupation with leftist social theory. But the data are nonetheless staggering.