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We’ve had striped bass the last two weeks here and here. Now, Tori Hornstein sends along a mule she caught off of Rhode Island. Tori is Vice President of Development and Partnerships for Young Education Professionals- DC. And here’s Catherine Cullen with one caught in the Honga River off the Chesapeake Bay. Catherine – a former Ed …
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Barbara Davidson is a longtime standards and curriculum expert. Most recently she’s been working on Common Core implementation as Deputy Director for the curriculum organization Common Core (named and operating before the Common Core state standards were on the scene). There is plenty of disagreement about those new standards but hopefully everyone can lay down …
Kenneth Baer is the founder and CEO of Crosscut Strategies, a great comms, media, and strategy firm. They also do crisis comms, which I hope you don’t need but if you do… Ken wrote what is considered perhaps the definitive book on the rise of New Democrats in the Democratic Party. He also likes to get outside …
We need to talk about Friday Fish Porn. “No thanks,” you say. Well, hang on. As emails have become more of a popular way to get the blog and content blockers more of an issue, the few emails I used to get like this have become more common, “Just a note that educators prefer not …
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At Bellwether we’re hiring for a few roles – including a brand new graphics role. We talked recently about the coalition of the pissed off, and this ouster of a district sup’t might illustrate the issue. He was attacked for being too DEI-focused, not enough DEI-focused, and for a mask mandate. Reading more than writing lately – …
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We’ve had a lot of fish here over the years, different kinds of trout, salmon, large and smallmouth bass, stripers, shad…but we’ve never had a gar. Until today. Here’s Kevin Kosar, by day an analyst but more importantly the Mayor of Fish Porn again, with a gar he caught last weekend in the shadow of …
This guest blogpost is by Kevin Kosar, author of Failing Grades: The Federal Politics of Education, who edits the Federal Education Policy History website and is a senior fellow at the R Street Institute. I am running low on laptop battery and conveniently left my charger in Washington, DC. So I will keep this quick. …
This guest blogpost is by Kevin Kosar, author of Failing Grades: The Federal Politics of Education, who edits the Federal Education Policy History website and is a senior fellow at the R Street Institute. Maybe it is a sign that the Johnson-Weld ticket is serious—or possibly a writer was looking for something to troll. Either …
Mark Medema has worked in education for two decades including with KIPP and currently with Building Hope. He’s an expert on education facilities finance. I recently got this great note and picture from him. He writes: I probably never would have thought about spending a day fishing if I hadn’t seen so many others do …
I thought we got all the stripers out of our system last week but it turns out there are more. Here’s CRS’ Kevin Kosar with some rockfish – a double he caught last weekend. Kosar is a polymath. He knows federal education policy inside and out and he’s also an expert on whiskey. Either one …