Education & schools

“"It's just really encouraging to see Fremont is taking the next step to recognize homeschool graduates," says Andrew Coates after the city council voted last night to reverse its anti-homeschooling hiring policy and allow him to apply for a firefighter position.”

Oct 1 on @tperkins

“"Andrew Coates... is trying to serve his community as a paid firefighter in Fremont," says Nebraska State Senator Dave Murman. "It's just pure discrimination against homeschoolers."”

on a Nebraska firefighter applicant barred from hire in Fremont for being homeschooled

Sep 30 on @tperkins

“Fremont, Nebraska's city council votes tonight on whether to reverse an anti-homeschool hiring policy that barred Andrew Coates from a firefighter position. "The Mayor and several city council members have come out publicly to... support resolving this," reports Brent Keilen.”

Sep 30 on @tperkins

“A journalist asked me about my vision for education reform & I shared it. These are the kinds of questions both candidates should be able to address candidly in a debate - voters deserve answers.”

on Ramaswamy's education reform views and a call for candidates to debate them

Sep 15 on @VivekGRamaswamy

“I went to public schools through 8th grade, then St. X for high school. Education is personal to me: we have to make sure every kid in the state has a path to get the best possible education they can.”

Sep 7 on @VivekGRamaswamy

“Public school students are sadly still paying the price of the Covid school closures that my opponent pushed for, while private schools managed to remain open & did fine. It’s ridiculous to hear her now complain about educational inequality when she’s the one who caused it.”

on blaming a political opponent for pandemic-era school closures

Aug 26 on @VivekGRamaswamy

“I spoke with Cornell's president today, and the university has agreed to bring in outside counsel for an independent investigation.”

Oct 1 via USA Today

“Hundreds of students, including New Yorkers, are scrambling and scared since they’ve been disenrolled from their intended college just a few weeks before classes are set to begin,”

Aug 2 via theGrio

“New York is home to the nation’s finest systems of public higher education, and we are ready to welcome these talented students with the opportunity they deserve. To every student who is worried that their educational future has been disrupted: New York is ready to support and empower you.”

on New York colleges welcoming students affected by Howard University's mass unenrollment

Aug 1 via TheGrio

“One thing I think people are getting wrong about the NHJ story is overestimating the actual quality of instruction — as opposed to selection effects + parental supplementation — in the “good” schools families clamor to move to.”

Sep 30 on @mattyglesias

“Well my dad didn't need any student loans to drop out of high school and sell a novel.”

Sep 29 on @mattyglesias

“There is just a ton of institutional resistance in ed schools and teacher training programs to telling teachers they should give kids explicit instruction. We’re rolling the bad ideas back on phonics but they’ve moved on to math and it’s grim.”

Sep 21 on @mattyglesias

“It's been coasting on vibes rather than substance for a long time. Fewer and fewer interesting ideas come out of elite higher ed. Close to totally irrelevant on AI. And its vibes are increasingly bad too. Harvard/Stanford/Cambridge Inc etc is increasingly a depreciated brand.”

on elite universities losing relevance and prestige, including on AI

Aug 21 on @NateSilver538

“I don't think elite higher ed is going to become irrelevant but it's probably tracking to become ~50% less relevant in the new steady state, and that's probably a good recalibration.”

on predicting elite higher education becoming roughly half as relevant

Aug 20 on @NateSilver538

“Rare unironic life advice. It can be great for many people but if you're on the fence about whether to go to some sort of graduate school, i.e. you don't have something fairly specific you're trying to accomplish, probably don't. A much worse value proposition than 20 years ago.”

on graduate school being a weaker investment than in the past

Aug 17 on @NateSilver538

“In Trump’s vulgar world of oligarchy, greed and corruption, he wants to cut off student loans for these majors because he doesn't think graduates will earn enough: Teaching Social work Art Counseling Religious studies Music Pathetic!”

Sep 30 on @SenSanders

“Trump’s proposal to strip the tax-exempt status of 18,000 schools that refuse to bend to his racist views is not only illegal, but a blatant attempt to deny a quality education to Black, Latino and Native Americans. In the USA, we must provide quality education to ALL.”

Sep 6 on @SenSanders

“At a time when the U.S. faces the highest rate of child poverty of any major country, how does Mr. Trump respond? Instead of expanding access to early childhood education, he is moving to dismantle Head Start and the standards that keep its 700,000 kids safe. How cruel.”

Aug 7 on @SenSanders

“I agree. I know quite a few parents who made bad educational choices for their kids because they were in the grips of their own ideology, and very very very few will ever admit they made a mistake. We should encourage humility and self-reflection. It's a powerful essay.”

Sep 21 on @DavidAFrench

“"I’m concerned that ideas like Heritage American arise in part because we’ve created a vacuum. By not instilling a robust sense of what it means to be a citizen of the United States and a patriot in our younger generation, we’ve allowed malignant people and malignant ideas to fill the void. They’ve turned something good — an interest in our roots and pride in our families — into something dark."”

on weak civic education creating space for ideas like Heritage American nationalism

Sep 21 on @DavidAFrench

“"In reality, the ideological monoculture is more harmful to liberals than conservatives. Paloma is right; given her conservative upbringing, exposure to very liberal students at Harvard would have given her a well-rounded education. Her liberal classmates? Not as much. When you are surrounded by like-minded people, your ideas are less likely to be tested, and — just as dangerous — it becomes easier to believe that disagreement with you is a sign of ignorance or malice."”

on liberal ideological monoculture on campus harming liberal students most

Aug 24 on @DavidAFrench

“When it comes to the choices my husband and I have made about public education, these days I feel that I failed both my values and my child.”

on whether her school choices for her own child conflicted with her integration advocacy

Sep 24 via Atlanta Black Star

“I have no doubt my parents' decision to pull me out of my segregated neighborhood school made the possibility of my getting from there to here—staff writer for The New York Times Magazine—more likely”

on her own escape from a segregated school shaping her career success

Sep 24 via Reason Magazine

“felt an obligation to make educational decisions based on the collective good and not just our individual advantage”

on choosing her daughter's school based on collective good over individual advantage

Sep 24 via The Federalist

“Every dollar stolen from Federal student aid is a dollar taken from taxpayers and deserving students,”

on Treasury warning about fraud schemes stealing federal student financial aid

Jul 25 via Breitbart News

“The Trump Administration will not tolerate criminals who exploit government programs for personal gain. Treasury is working with financial institutions and law enforcement to identify these fraud schemes, recover stolen funds, and hold those responsible accountable.”

Jul 25 via Breitbart News

“Look around our campuses and classrooms today – apart from those here at Wheeler, of course – you will find that our students are being sold the seductive lie that government can solve every problem, redistribute every dollar and supplant its judgment for our own,”

Jul 23 via The Guardian

“Meritocracy isn't the problem. It's the solution. And the fact that both parties are now moving toward wholesale rejection of meritocracy spells the end of American innovation, freedom, and strength.”

on Ben Shapiro defending meritocracy against efforts by both parties to reject it

Sep 23 on @benshapiro

“Texas state law requires that 90% of the total freshman class come from Texas residents. UT must automatically admit the top 5-6% of every graduating high school class. About 4% of undergraduate students are international.”

on Texas law setting in-state, top-percent and international admission rules at UT

Sep 16 on @benshapiro

“A must read. A carefully researched report on how the Heritage Foundations promotes networks of truly extremist Christian nationalist schools and seeks public funding for them.”

Sep 18 on @BillKristol

“Important piece. “Boards of trustees are composed of people with agency. The foes of government intrusion must personalize to demand accountability from people with maximal power, resources and protection. So we address Yale’s trustees directly.””

Jul 29 on @BillKristol

“Last week, I raised this issue with Secretary McMahon, and I’m pleased she agreed to expedite the obligation of the funds for the Alaska Native Education Program grants that Congress appropriated earlier this year,”

on Murkowski securing a pledge to speed up $41.3M in Alaska Native education grants

Aug 11 via ICT News

“We cannot lose sight of the fact that at the end of the day, we’re talking about children, whether it’s children with special needs, whether it’s children in our elementary schools, whether it’s our Native students — making sure that we don’t lose that focus,”

Aug 1 via Breitbart News

“For @reason , I talked with psychologist Peter Gray about his new book Restoring Childhood, which argues that K-12 curriculum is largely responsible for increases in adolescent mental health issues, his disagreements with @LetGrowOrg cofounder @JonHaidt abt social media effects, and how to revive free-range parenting.”

Sep 17 on @nickgillespie

“'So our kids are going to preschools at age 3 or 4 where they are treated as clueless, exhausted, dumb, dull, decrepit near-humans who need boring, didactic and confusing instructions — as do their teachers.' @FreeRangeKids @LetGrowOrg @reason”

Aug 13 on @nickgillespie

“I’ve supported it in the primary and I continue to support it today … we have an increasing number of vacancies of paraprofessional positions within New York City. … This is because we are paying people a wage they cannot afford to live in this city anymore.”

on paraprofessional job vacancies in New York City schools tied to low pay

Aug 4 via World Socialist Web Site

“The $10,000 supplement for paraprofessionals is critically important,”

Aug 4 via World Socialist Web Site