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Seven years ago, Fordham’s Mike Petrilli was mocked featured on here for the, um, rather small fish that he and his sons caught. Well, no more! Mike took his son and some friends out on the Potomac recently and caught the giant catfish below. He says he had help this time, but we’ll still praise him for …
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The Petrilli’s took their son fishing and you’ll never believe what happened next! Nico Petrilli’s angling career has been featured here before a few ways. But this fish is a milestone. He got it on the Potomac, near Sycamore Island, so father Mike is proud it’s an “inside the beltway” fish. Hundreds of education people with …
Light content over the past few weeks despite everything going on—lots of travel and work. Apologies, or you’re welcome, depending on why you read. Here today is some recent content you might have missed, along with a look at the upcoming SCOTUS religious charters case, the restructuring of the Department of Education, and whether you …
Congrats to my colleagues Amy Chen Kulesa and Alex Spurrier for their winning essay in Fordham’s Wonkaton. Alex and Amy take a measured look at the potential of AI. Not kool aid, and not cold water. Dutch Treat. Earlier this week Secretary of Education Cardona gaffed. Apparently unaware that President Reagan was not much of …
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Mike Petrilli is all bent out shape that the administration is not going to send John King to the Hill for a formal confirmation process but instead leave him running the Department of Education in an acting capacity. I don’t know exactly what I think about this, but I do think Mike’s being transparently political. …
Mike Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute took his kids, ages seven and five, fishing and it was a success. Look at that catfish (and those smiles)! More pictures of education types and their fish via this link.
Petrilli did it. I don’t know why, but despite my frequent pleas to get outside and take a kid fishing it was this picture of Fordham’s Mike Petrilli fishing with his kids that has prompted several emails and calls from colleagues asking, ‘I want to do this, but how?’ One person even said that he …
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Fordham’s Mike Petrilli is not afraid to go small. When almost no one else would defend Virginia’s really small expectations for students, Petrilli rushed into the breach. Federal role in education? These days he wants small. School size? He likes ’em small. So, I wasn’t too surprised to see this picture come across my desk. …
Though it came over the holiday break everyone is chattering about Sam Dillon’s NYT story on the presidential candidates and No Child Left Behind. It’s a good thing to chatter about but only because the story seemed to almost willfully miss the more complicated realities underlying the No Child Left Behind issue right now. Perhaps …
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Reminder, we’ve got 34 ESSA reviews coming tomorrow. Department of Education explainer on Endrew F. case implications. Parallel play on civil rights and education. And this on the same issue from U.S. News. Very much related: Petrilli on school discipline. Not long ago we talked about PX90 for your mind – the school discipline issue is a great …