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Amanpour and Company

Why Is American Student Achievement Down? (It’s Not Trump or the Pandemic)

Season 2025 Episode 8044 | 17m 51s

Michel Martin sits down with Andrew Rice, a features writer at New York Magazine, to discuss his recent cover story, “The Big Fail: Student achievement has fallen off a cliff. And neither Trump nor the pandemic is to blame.” In the story Rice investigates a steep, decade-long decline in U.S. student achievement and why even wealthy and progressive communities are struggling to address the problem.

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