Bonnie O’Keefe on leadership turnover. Pennsylvania has a lot of roller coasters, Chad Aldeman on the one you don’t want to ride. Cami Anderson with an open edu letter to the Trump team.
The education reform sector seems to be breaking into three factions over Donald Trump’s presidency:
1) Don’t do anything with Trump’s administration. No matter how good any policy idea is in isolation, it’s tainted because of its association with Trump. Besides, your friends will never speak to you again.
2) Let’s see what Trump does. Legitimizing him as president is not the same as normalizing everything his campaign was about. If some proposals are reasonable ideas that might improve outcomes for kids, then that’s good and people have to work together even across disagreement. Besides, you can’t just put the freeze on things that might help kids for four years, or longer.
3) Yeehah! Biggest opportunity for choice ever! Besides, Yeehah! Biggest opportunity for choice ever!
Related, ICYMI, my take on Trump’s possible paths on choice.
Sol Stern at war. Making colleges more economically diverse.
Primary document: Kanye West and Trump talked education issues in their Trump Tower meeting.
Progressive Policy Institute goes back to Indy (pdf).
Spending money on schools can make a difference. Key line,
Mr. Rothstein cautioned that the idea that states could erase the achievement gap between poor and middle class students by simply cutting a few checks was unrealistic. “There has been a tendency to expect magic from these reforms,” he said.
Perhaps naive, but you would like to think there is a politics to be built right there with the broad swath of people in the education world who believe money matters and how it’s spent matters, too?
Here’s Myles Mendoza, Marty West, Shavar Jefferies, and Karen Nussle talking education politics in the Trump era. Great panelists make any moderator look good – couple of great audience questions, too. Who does Betsy DeVos listen to? Maybe not Cory Booker these days?
California and the feds are still arguing over testing like it matters. RAND and Wallace on school leadership, evidence, and ESSA.
Whitney Tilson versus Elizabeth Warren. Sorta. And Whitney got his apology. Peace in our time!
Schools wrestling with anti-racist works of art and fiction that aren’t anti-racist enough.
This article is a brutal and a frustrating reminder that we can’t come together to balance rights, responsibility, and common sense on the gun issue.
