Our nation’s 4th grade and 8th-grade students’ standardized math and reading comprehension scores have remained flat over the last 20 years. Frankly, it’s embarrassing for a nation that spends $721 billion a year on grades K-12 or $15,000 per pupil, for 9 months for mediocre outcomes. This is not the time to change course from reading, writing, and arithmetic, to reading, rioting, and racism...