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HÆIR

The Education Gladfly
4.1.2023

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In 2014, The Thomas B. Fordham Institute announced that Mike Petrilli would succeed Checker Finn as president of the national education policy think tank. Less than a whirlwind decade later, Petrilli chronicles his journey from the sprightly, dance-loving, fashion-risk-taking forty-something with long, luscious brown locks to the press-cautious, Twitter-weary, shiny-scalped fifty-year-old he is today. In one noteworthy highlight, he blames Finn for goading him into shooting a music video in which he dressed like an insect and danced around, leading to widespread derision in the ed-press tabloids. Eat your heart out Spare. This is HÆIR.

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