East Tennessee Children's Hospital announced a generational partnership and took the name Dolly Parton Children's Hospital. Her name had moved from a television credit to a book label to the front of a place where children go to heal. Think about the distance between those two images. A little girl in a small one-bedroom home composing songs before
DOLLY WAS OPENLY PRO-LGBTQ+, PRO-BLACK LIVES MATTER, PRO-WOMEN'S RIGHTS, PRO-LITERACY, PRO-SCIENCE AND PROUDLY CHRISTIAN WHILE REMAINING FIRMLY ROOTED IN COUNTRY MUSIC AND ALTHOUGH SEVERAL TRIED, NO ONE COULD EVER INTIMIDATE HER INTO BACKING DOWN OR BEING SILENT. A TRUE AMERICAN IDOL!
United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew criticized Mayor Zohran Mamdani's literacy initiative after the latest preliminary state test results showed English language arts proficiency declined sharply among city public school students. "The DOE [Department of Education] needs to make sure each school has a clear instructional plan,"
Orietta Rose @OriettaRose It's funny how people are so concerned that homeschoolers might not be doing enough "school", when the school system is graduating kids who can't read right in front of your faces & y'all don't have much to say about it.
25% of American high school students are functionally illiterate and innumerate.
40-60% of college freshmen need remedial math, English, or both.
What exactly are we spending 12+ years of classroom education doing, if kids still need remedial work at the end?
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