Speaking of lockdowns, here’s a disturbing but not surprising chart, with the latest international comparison of students:

We can’t help but notice that Sweden (where schools for kids under 16 did not close for a single day during COVID) is up near the top of that chart. And this chart shows that in the last five years, US students went from being slightly better at math than their Swedish counterparts to being notably worse:

Only school choice will reverse these trends.