News Summary

• In a world where knowledge is the key to future success, students today suffer from what experts call “hasty reading.” In what has been called the “Mississippi Miracle,” the state has rapidly improved its K-12 student performance in ten years.
• The problem is not school funding.
• American schools have been flooded with money and technology, including Chromebook computers and digital learning platforms.
• “Are they just plugging into AI and going on autopilot or are they actually learning how to think critically?” says co-host Eric Eggers.