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Marc Porter Magee

@marcportermagee.bsky.social
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I live in Virginia with @kportermagee, our 3 adorable kids & 3 scruffy dogs. Personal account. Work: CEO & founder of 50CAN.

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The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
New 50CAN survey of over 23,000 parents finds shifting priorities across political spectrum. @gtoppo.bsky.social reports
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Parents Want Tutoring, Summer Camp, Open Enrollment. Annual Testing? Not So Much
New 50CAN survey of over 23,000 parents finds shifting priorities across political spectrum.
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
It’s @50can.org’s 15th anniversary. To celebrate the anniversary, we asked 29 people to share their stories and turned it into an oral history of our first 15 years. 50can.org/wp-content/u...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Can progressivism survive when it’s wrapped in a pessimistic wrapper? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
“Democrats are divided and flummoxed over what to do.” t.co/KLMYla6gCn
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Cash alone fails a big test. Back to education programs and reforms? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
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Chalkbeat @chalkbeat.org · 13/06/2025
100 students in a school meant for 1,000: Inside Chicago’s refusal to deal with its nearly empty schools www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/06/1…
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‘A lack of political courage’: Why is Chicago avoiding its school enrollment problem?
Declining school enrollment has left 30% of Chicago public schools at least half-empty. The city’s failure to address this problem has come at a high cost to the district — and its students.
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Do progressive groups want to look successful more than they want to be successful? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Thomas S. Dee @tomdee.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
This provocative, data-infused essay by James Wyckoff — edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1197 — serves as a reminder that fully understanding the declines in student achievement requires us to look well before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Why did Democrats give up on learning as a priority? How do they get it back? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/u...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
For the first time in its history, DFER embraces private school choice in its new policy agenda. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
In terms of donors, Trump complicates the oligarchy story. While most of his 2020 funding (55%) came from the top 10%, that’s the lowest reliance on wealthy of any candidate we studied. Nearly 45% of 2020 donations came from bottom 90%—a remarkable shift for a Republican. 3/ cup.org/4cfm0Az
Figure 2 in paper presents the proportion of a campaign’s itemized total from each wealth group in stacked bar charts. Each bar represents a candidate-year, with segments showing the percentage of total dollars that come from each of four wealth bins.  In both 2016 and 2020, Trump was much less reliant on the wealthy than Romney. Compared to Romney, Trump’s share of dollars from the bottom 90% is 9 percentage points higher in 2016, and 20 percentage points higher in 2020. In dollar terms, Trump got 2.7 times more dollars than Romney from the bottom 90% (in 2020). Likewise, Trump’s share from the top 1% (the sum of the top two bins) is 9 and 15 percentage points lower than Romney’s. To be sure, most of Trump’s dollars still came from the wealthy. Even in 2020, the wealthiest 10% gave him 55% of his dollars. However, the bottom 90% nearly matched them. To put this in sharp relief, the candidate with a wealth distribution of dollars closest to Trump’s in 2020 is Obama.
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
“Near the end of the argument, Justice Kavanaugh thanked the school board’s lawyer, Alan E. Schoenfeld, suggesting he had done what he could with hopeless material.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Biden believed the best way to stop Trump was to give every Democratic interest group a reason to be loyal. It backfired. “How did Democrats back themselves into this corner? Partly they’re pandering to pro-tariff constituencies (i.e., unions, once reliable Democratic allies).”
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
When you give a child a laptop and just turn them loose, amazing things happen Just kidding, it’s a complete bust voxdev.org/topic/educat...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Why is the Democrats’ response to Trump’s tariffs so muddled? Because Biden left them without a clear stance on free trade. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
What’s the future of NAEP? www.the74million.org/article/lind...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
How tilted to the left are the staff at universities? New data from VR Scores. vrscores.org/data-visuali...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The change in US 4th grade math skills by content area on the NAEP What's going on with geometry? zarekdrozda.substack.com/p/beyond-the...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Which selective colleges have the most balance between liberal & conservative students? Answer: Washington & Lee, Notre Dame, University of Miami, Boston College and Wake Forest. fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The turmoil at the Ivies continues www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“after suffering their biggest defeat in decades, Democrats are deeply fractured, rudderless, and struggling to figure out at the most basic level what their message and strategy should be” www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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‘If We Don’t Get Our S--t Together, Then We Are Going to Be in a Permanent Minority’
It’s been months since Democrats suffered a devastating defeat at the polls. For all the talk about the party’s need for change, few seem actually willing to make the leap.
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
This seems like a pretty big finding to understand why inequality in education is increasing: When high-performing students got broadband in their homes, they learned more. When low-performing students got broadband in their homes, they learned
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Remembering Kevin Drum www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
“Progressive groups that coalesced around trauma turned the trauma inward. Activists proclaimed unity and preached collective action, but they found themselves divided along lines of identity or fracturing over conflicts that bewildered outsiders” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/m...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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Karen Vaites @karenvaites.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
“If early, aggressive moves to contain the pandemic can be forgiven, it’s harder to excuse officials who clung to the shutdowns even amid mounting evidence that they were wrongheaded. School closures are the most important case.”
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Karen Vaites @karenvaites.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Two Princeton academics critique our pandemic response, and they may finally break through with arguments many of us made in real time. Protracted school closures get heavy critique in the book. Paywall-free article: archive.ph/2025.03.09-1...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
How Covid changed everything (in charts) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Whelp ed research orgs had mass lay-offs yesterday Mathematica: www.linkedin.com/posts/mathem... MDRC: www.linkedin.com/posts/mdrc_t... NORC: www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-ga... RTI: www.linkedin.com/posts/no%C3%... Westat: www.linkedin.com/posts/westat... WestEd: www.linkedin.com/posts/amyhre...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The Trump Administration withdrew $400 million in federal funds to Columbia, arguing they have failed to protect their Jewish students. Here is the list of other schools they are looking at: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/u...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Seems like the first of many reversals as Dems reposition for 2028 www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Where do nonprofits get their money?
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Are Southerners losing their Southern accent? “Our results make clear that, among White speakers from Georgia, the phonological vowel system has reorganized itself over the last fifty years.” www.cambridge.org/core/service...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The peak for talking about the achievement gap was 2011. (The actual achievement gap however keeps increasing.)
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Americans are becoming more conservative on transgender issues www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
CHART OF THE DAY "Household Income Distribution within 8 School Types" From #EdOppportunityExplorer by 50CAN, drawing on data from a survey of 20,000 US parents 50can.org/education-op...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Who gets tutoring in the US?
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
“On every single issue that mattered to them, progressives now find themselves in a weaker position than before.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
We have a new poll out today on Virginian voters’ views on education. Here are the highlights. Click the link for the full report. 50can.org/publication/...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
“The NAEP results make clear the failure of American schools to rebound from Covid. And despite the infusion of over $180 billion in federal money to rescue American schools since the pandemic, there is no evidence of a turnaround” www.educationnext.org/low-performi...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
New Gallup survey: satisfaction with the quality of public education in US is at record low news.gallup.com/poll/656114/...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
“The Democratic Party, at least in theory, is an organization dedicated to winning political power through elected office, though this might seem hard to believe on the evidence provided by its official proceedings” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Race, ethnicity and school type on the 2024 NAEP
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
2% of Black 8th graders in Milwaukee are proficient in math on the 2024 NAEP
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
How did states do on the 2024 #NAEP when adjusting for demographics? Urban Institute did the calculations. When rank ordered you end up with Mississippi, Louisiana and Massachusetts at the top. Alaska, Oregon and West Virginia at the bottom. t.co/RGJYn0h0Fr
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I haven’t seen much discussion of school type on the 2024 #NAEP. Maybe it's because no one made a chart! You can’t break out private schools because of the sample size but you can compare public vs charter vs Catholic. Result: Catholic students are 1 to 2 grade levels ahead.
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
“Good artists copy, great artists steal” www.the74million.org/article/loui...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
New #NAEP Visualization from Watershed Advisors Grade 4, Math: Change from 2013 to 2024 Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama & DC at the top Oregon, Minnesota, Maine and Vermont at the bottom watershed-advisors.com/resources/na...
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Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Love this report card from Cade Brumley on Louisiana’s NAEP performance From 50th to 16th on 4th grade reading in 5 years is worth celebrating
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