Kids Are Graduating High School Unable to Read — and Teachers Are Finally Speaking Out

A Houston teacher's video just went hyper-viral for a devastating reason: his high school students are heading to college unable to read or write — some couldn't fill in four words. And he's not alone; even a Teacher of the Year is speaking out. Tom and Drew break down how US education got here in the wake of No Child Left Behind, and why it's inseparable from the other story of the day: the government just posted the largest July deficit in history, with interest on the debt now the second-biggest line item in the entire federal budget — bigger than the military. Plus: Gen Z now bets on sports more than it invests, Apple brings Mac manufacturing back to Texas, and the contrarian case that everything you've heard about data centers is wrong.

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