On the promise of–and problems with–the current crop of 2020 campaign education ideas. ‘At present, absent a comprehensive, urgent agenda, millions of American kids at schools like Oakland SOL continue muddling through. This is public education in America, where things are not as they should be, but that’s just about all we’ve come to expect.’
On Kamala Harris’ teacher pay increase proposal and the 2020 K-12 conversation.
On the state of education politics in the run-up to the 2020 election.
On public education, school choice, and the efficacy of righteous outrage.
On Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the virtues of tests.
On advances in the learning sciences and the stickiness of the status quo.
On how the administration’s immigration policies are harming US-born children of immigrants.
On ways that Washington, DC can promote equitable access to multilingual schools for English learning students.
Of Emily Krone Phillips’ Make-Or-Break Year.
On the ugly consequences of framing immigration (and citizenship) in terms of merit.
