Monday, April 14, 2025

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 12:08) You Can’t Just Blame the Pandemic: America’s School Crisis Started Long Ago, and It’s Predictably Getting Worse Part II (12:08 - 16:28) Failing Schools: New Study Shows the Pandemic Rocked States Under Democrat Influence Harder Than Republican States The pandemic hit pupils hardest in America’s Democrat-leaning states by The Economist Part III (16:28 - 18:43) To Help Students or Please Teachers Unions? Politicians Often Appear to Cater to Teaching Establishment Rather Than Good of Students Josh Shapiro Keeps Betraying Poor Pennsylvania Children by The Wall Street Journal (Rachel Langan) Part IV (18:43 - 26:14) ‘Til Mindfulness Do You Part?