Trump’s education secretary nominee, Linda McMahon, has been slammed for a ‘thin resume’ on education. Here’s why

President Trump 's education secretary nominee Linda McMahon is being attacked for a lack of education experience.

Julian Zelizer : Myriad data indicate the education industry is one of the nation’s lowest-performing.

He says homeschool parents are better teachers than the average person with a teaching degree.

Zelizer says the success of homeschooling is an indictment of the entire U.S. education system.

Education departments are perhaps the most communist of all college departments, and they have been so for decades , says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: Federal involvement in education began in the 1950s as part of the Cold War effort to outcompete communist countries.

He says the average U.S. IQ is declining, reversing a century -long trend of IQ improvement. Americans who can't and don’t read are not going to win the AI race against China or likely be able to pay more in taxes than they consume, let alone make great leaders in even their own homes.