California’s Dumbed-Down Schooling Torpedoing US Defense vs. China, Russia

A Long March 5B rocket lifts off from the Wenchang launch site on China's southern Hainan island on May 5, 2020. Another variant of the Long March rocket was used to get China's hypersonic missile into orbit in July. STR/AFP via Getty Images

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This is why I keep writing about how dangerous it is for California to dumb down education standards, especially for STEM—science, technology, engineering, and math. Look at this: “When we see the low level in mathematics and physics today throughout the Western school structure, we say to ourselves that the light will come from elsewhere. And this is what we are seeing.”