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ALT: Liz Lemon's Mandaparty

Every time one of these happens, I get a little Liz Lemon in my head. Ain’t no party like a Pete Hegseth party, cuz a Pete Hegseth party is mandatory

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Liz Lemon's Mandaparty

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Neither here nor there, but the "I learned it by watching you" campaign left me VERY ill-prepared to recognize actual drugs when I encountered them. My 7yo self was like, "He's got a drawer full of... what, empty mint wrappers?"

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Also, there’s a weirdly large degree of overlap between the people bemoaning “100 year old” pedagogical techniques and system structures and the people who are like WHY DOES NO ONE TEACH QUINTILIAN ANYMORE?

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And this also doesn’t cut cleanly. Like, former teachers will emphasize the importance of getting teachers on board with some reform; and non-teachers who point to unions as a huge impediment seem to me saying the same thing, but it’s a different way of conceiving the obstacle

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Oh, I actually did not mean my thing disparagingly, though re-reading it, I can absolutely see how it came off that way. The difference that I see has to do with how FEASIBLE each subgroup thinks a given intervention will be, and where the roadblocks will arise.

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I will say, you really can tell, with Ed policy researchers, which ones spent 5-10 years as classroom teachers before going back for a PhD, and which ones didn’t.

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I research teachers' work. There is a known gap between public perception and the actual day-to-day experience of teaching that sociologist Dan Lortie poetically described as coming from "the apprenticeship of observation." This imagination/reality gap creates lots of problems in ed policy.

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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

'I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a Hawk from a Hawkeye.'

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

Oh but if we asked historians of education, it’d be impossible to get so excited about every new opportunity to cut labor costs and find efficiencies!

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Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents

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david i. backer @schooldaves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whenever the GAO puts out a report on school facilities it's an important day, there's precious few national reports. This one found that 1 in 5 schools had to cancel classes due to poor facilities, impacting 2 million students in 2024-25. www.gao.gov/products/gao...

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U.S. GAO - K-12 Education: Facility Issues Led About One in Five Districts to Cancel School in 2024-25, Affecting 2 Million Students

Many public school facilities are outdated or poorly maintained. Facility issues, including plumbing leaks and extreme indoor temperatures, can...

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Southey Blanton @southey4senate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's difficult to grapple with the cost of material which hinders upgrades and fixes. But in NC it also is infuriating to see that if we had left our state education lottery percentage at 35% as it was required we could have had an additional 5 billion dollars in revenue for infrastructure.

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Everybody thinks school finance is so boring until a building collapses

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This is the essential core of popularism. Things being exactly the way they are in the present is the only imaginable state of affairs, and that is the lens through which everything gets judged. I was a stay-at-home toddler dad recently, and the idea that this would offer nothing to me is CRAZY

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(And just to be clear, that’s not to say that all these claims are equally wrong or nefarious. And it’s not to say that everyone trumpeting some claim is engaged in grift. It’s a commentary on how the SPACE works, the rules of the game.)

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30 Ideas for Fixing U.S. Schools, Ranked by Experts

Like, what does each quadrant/intervention in this chart from the other day have in common? An immediately identifiable set of proponents reaping rewards for bellowing about how cell phone bans (Haidt) or vouchers (innumerable) or whatever are THE ANSWER

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Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?

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In my ed reform course, I talk about its propensity for grift — structural encouragement to make huge promises about a glorious future and collect massive present financial and social rewards on that basis. Well-meaning reformers might look at the AI hype cycle and be like, oh shit, that’s us.

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The thing about SaS's breathless innuendo about the evil publishing company pushing a flawed product, the cultish devotion to a set of scholars invested in a particular way of understanding education, and widespread underdelivering is — that’s just what ed reform looks like. For decades.

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Jack (who was one of the experts polled) agrees! I know other names on that list would too. Unfortunately, this doesn’t fit the reformist agenda & moral panic angle of NYT’s education reporting. bsky.app/profile/jack...

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Dan "Scary" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Aaah look what I got in the mail! Congratulations to @miriamposner.com on publication and congratulations to everyone else who finally gets to read this incredible book.

My hand holding the very groovy white and rainbow book cover of "seeing like a supply chain: the hidden life of logistics" by Miriam
Posner

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With Hanusheck in the lineup, you were never going to be my first guess :)

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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also read @jenjennings.bsky.social’s new book! Extremely thorough

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(*straightens bowtie*) If we were truly serious about "fixing schools" and improving education, we would start with a comprehensive anti-poverty policy agenda.

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Jack Schneider @jackschneider.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love being at a place in my life and career where I can look at this panel of experts and be like (a) if you're finding points of consensus with these folks, you're looking at something quite real, and also (b) I know exactly who ranked "firing ineffective teachers" as a high-impact intervention.

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I don't disagree. But, as I wrote back to these reporters, I am most optimistic about projects that respond to the expressed concerns of students and teachers. These are the people who spend 180 days inside schools each year, and they're the key actors in the process of teaching and learning. 1/n

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