Education News, Analysis, and Commentary
PSA – It’s Stop The Bleed Day. Take a minute to learn what that’s about. Ed Week’s Sawchuk delves into the CRT debate. Good explainer with some history. Per this yesterday, I’m not sure the terms of the debate are really clear. CRT, wokesim, and DEI are getting conflated pretty casually confusing the debate – or …
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Coming attractions. Deep dive in The 74 on the debate that’s broken out about teaching history, roughly 1619 v. 1776 v. President Trump. Here’s WSJ’s Jason Riley on Critical Race Theory and here’s David E. DeMatthews and Terri N. Watson of UT-Austin and City College on the same from the other side. Pretty different takes and a …
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Bottom line: If the Republicans can land on a message that highlights the Democratic liabilities here then the issue won’t break as cleanly to the Democrats as people assume. I’ve mentioned before that the core Democratic political problem right now is how the party is being held hostage by its activist class. It’s not a …
Continue reading “Book Banning Could Be A Good Issue For Democrats, But It’s Not A Sure Thing”
Earlier this year I took a look at how different ways of grantmaking – in particular project based funding – might be a contributing factor to the ongoing meltdowns at progressive organizations. And more recently a look at philanthropy and risk. In both cases, some of the most interesting responses came from people inside philanthropy …
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The dust has settled from the New Year, resolutions, lists, and so forth. So back again (here’s last year), the Eduwonk In and Out list. Here’s an unscientific, impressionistic, and often informed by “don’t tell anyone I sent this email” missives from colleagues, take on what’s coming and going in 2023. Look for a more …
Coming Attractions On Nov. 9, I will be at the American Enterprise Institute with a few other edufolks to analyze the election and its education impacts. This excites and delights a certain kind of edunerd: Should be a good discussion, some real education implications. With the important caveat that it’s still a few weeks out …
Continue reading “Gates Is All About That Base…Ten. Plus The Ongoing Freelance Problem…”
Happy August. I spent most of July in Alaska, which was fantastic and I have a freezer full of wild fish (it’s Friday so fish content). That’s why light posting. Posting will be intermittent in August as well. For now, a few things including, what does my Virginia state board appointment mean for the blog? …
You’re starting to hear a real debate right now about whether the movement for transgender inclusion made a strategic error in emphasizing things like trying to get everyone to say that trans women are the same as biological women or elite sports participation rather than focusing on more immediate material concerns like formal discrimination. This sort …
Last week Harrisonburg, Virginia caught a lawsuit over its policy on transgender and gender questioning students. There are similar lawsuits pending elsewhere. There are a bunch of issues, but the crux one is language like this: When you scratch beneath the surface more and more people believe, thankfully, that public schools should be welcoming and inclusive …
Continue reading “Parents’ Rights Collision: What Does Public Mean Anyway?”
It’s now political lore how a backbencher from Georgia started going to the well of the House of Representatives after the day’s business was concluded and howled at the moon – with only C-Span cameras as his immediate audience. Newt Gingrich parlayed this strategy into real political power in 1994, but for a long time …