Reasonable people can disagree with what @benshapiro argues here. But the fact that his sensible argument is almost invisible in education press, ed schools, & ed advocacy, speaks to the field’s profound ideological bubble.
Ending teacher licensure would enable school leaders to recruit & more fully leverage all available talent.
And it’d allow would-be teachers to bypass the ed-school gauntlet of intimidation & reeducation.
These are good things.
At @NRO.
An accomplished NYC charter school leader is labeled a white supremacist & fired for wrongthink. His offense? He insists that *all* students should experience “intellectual joy” . . . We may truly be through the looking glass.
I’ll be curious to see what @Northeastern says about a professor openly proclaiming that she hates half of the university’s students. Does this reflect Husky values like “empathy” & “inclusivity”? If so, I trust this standard will be applied consistently. washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-c…
I wish I’d been introduced to this Frederick Douglass speech back before I taught high school civics.
It’s a glorious meditation on America’s profound ideals, prodigious failures, and towering capacity for self-betterment.
Happy birthday, America. thenation.com/article/archiv…
Brutally honest take from former U.S. SecEd @BetsyDeVos as to what the U.S. Department of Education actually does:
“It shuffles money around; adds unnecessary requirements and political agendas via its grants; and then passes the buck when it comes time to assess if any of that
Just what does the Department of Education actually do anyway? Mostly, it writes rules, houses an expansive bureaucracy, and funnels dollars to states and institutions of higher education.
Contrary to the claims of the teachers unions and aggrieved Democrats, it doesn’t educate
If Betsy DeVos had tried to quote FDR or JFK to score a political point and wound up fabricating history, the WaPo and NYT would’ve been all over it for days.
Will the stewards of integrity devote similar attention to Cardona’s televised bout of ignorance and ineptitude?
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona:
"I think it was President Reagan who said, 'We're from the government. We're here to help!'"
Here's the actual quote:
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help."
It’s *cheaper* to attend Purdue now than when @purduemitch took office. You’d think that’d make him a hero in the world of higher ed. That it hasn’t tells you how much campus bureaucrats actually care about college costs.
At @Forbes. forbes.com/sites/frederic…
Progressives are defending an avowedly racist college because they don’t think that Eisgruber *really* means Princeton is racist. They think it’s obvious (and exculpatory) that he’s just engaging in ritual genuflection to “anti-racist” dogma.
At @Forbes. forbes.com/sites/frederic…
So, @washingtonpost book reviewer Ron Charles cheers cancellation of six Dr. Seuss books.
He closes by warning, “We will have to get rid of other things, too.”
Geez. I can still remember when book reviewers were generally opposed to banning books.
It’s almost as if Maddow doesn’t know that all these billions are owed to the U.S. Treasury & not to banks . . . as if she doesn’t know that Democrats cut the banks out during the Obama years in order to “protect borrowers.”
Unless, of course, she’s just purposefully lying.
