Our children’s test scores are down. They haven’t even reached pre-Covid levels, which wasn’t anything to brag about then. And the students are more anxious than ever. Pick your benchmark. Pick your trend line. Pick your anecdote. Our kids are in trouble, and so our nation’s future is in trouble. […]

As I walked along the nearly 60-foot-long bronze sculpture, Taps, which was played at the conclusion of the formal unveiling ceremony over an hour before, still hauntingly echoed in my mind. My eyes were riveted upon the sculpture’s statues which were now eerily illuminated against the encroaching darkness of the […]