So you can call it the gym membership problem. Two people belong to a gym. One works out regularly and eats right. The other ...
A lot below: Accountability debates in Virginia, dismantling the Department of Education, Ross Wiener’s op-ed, the national voucher tax credit, and child protective services. Plus – when Starlee ...
Around the country, states are passing bans on cell phones in schools. Thirty-five states now have some sort of restriction—either all day or just during instructional time. Policymakers are quickly ...
Next week, on April 29th, I’ll talk with Dr. Sonja Santelises, outgoing CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools on her run in Baltimore and what she’s learned. You can join and ask questions. That’s ...
For the second time in a week, The New York Times set everyone chattering with an education article. First, it was the dubious idea that California should turn its elite colleges into diploma mills.
Jed and I talk AI, education politics, Virginia, and Target boycotts on a New WonkyFolk. Is Liz Cohen right that we need a need a Dry January for ed tech? That and more. You can listen where you get ...
We do fish porn around here, sure. We don’t do the real kind, this is a family friendly publication. Yet this week the sector has a porn scandal. So here we are. It turns out that self-described ...
In Eduwonk today, new WonkyFolk, some VA news, 2025 holiday books. This is probably the last post of the year. There was some noise about a possible big announcement from the administration before ...
Light posting this summer — a lot of time on the road, for both work and play. Last weekend I rode my bike from Worcester to Provincetown in the Pan-Mass Challenge, raising money for the Dana-Farber ...
There’s a popular narrative that government doesn’t work that well lately – and budget brinksmanship in Washington this week certainly underscores that there is some truth to that. Yet underneath the ...
It’s the first week of January so here’s the In and Out list (2023 here and 2022 here). It’s unscientific, it’s impressionistic, and it’s informed by your emails so keep sending them. Happy New Year.
I was on The Disagreement with Alex Grodd earlier this week. You can watch here. Rick Hess and I also joined Nat Malkus on his podcast. You can listen here. Both podcasts are about what’s happening in ...