Cheers
- Welcome to PoliSci 0193, Tufts University’s course on American Conservatism. Your professor, Eitan Hersch, will lead students to a better understanding of conservative thought through research and debate. “There are people in that class—people on the left, I mean—who I’m sure disagree with each other” about any given issue, Hersh says, “…but they can see the challenge and they can learn… I want that to be the norm of the university.” —Wall Street Journal
- On the final day of National School Choice Week, the U.S. Department of Education announced it was withdrawing a raft of “burdensome” regulations on charter schools, issued in the waning days of the Biden Administration. —United States Department of Education
- Looking at the impacts of desegregation through an economic lens, Roland Fryer says that racial integration isn’t merely a moral or ethical endeavor but an economic necessity when access to important developmental resources are on the line. Access to resources is fundamental to black progress, he writes, while interaction with whites is less a less vital outcome. —The Wall Street Journal
Jeers
- When education leadership and training are commandeered by those who dismiss the traditional work of schooling, learning suffers. “Ugly” NAEP results tell the tale. —Education Next
- Economists Alison Baulos and James Heckman downplay the recent NAEP scores, repeating the long-discredited canard that such tests don’t really show what students are really capable of. —Hechinger Report
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