IN EDUPOLICY
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Education Matters
The fallacy of policymakers: episode 1
This is the first in a series which highlights the failed understanding of policymakers in policy implementation, how schools work, and how to educate. It’s almost too easy to find examples of the disconnect between policy and implementation. Governor Newsom’s $2 billion reopening plan is just the latest in a failed attempt to address studentContinue reading “The fallacy of policymakers: episode 1”
The Intention to Destroy Teachers
I was a subpar first year teacher and a moderately decent teacher when I left the profession four years later. In my first year teaching I had 3 different preps. The man who taught next door to me had 1 prep, US History, which he had been teaching for more than twenty years. In myContinue reading “The Intention to Destroy Teachers”
Defunding education
Remember the college student who had the assignment to argue the value of an educated population. The second question for the assignment was why is so little spent on education. Shrug?! This is a question I ask every day. Compared to the rest of the world, the United States is one of the top spendersContinue reading “Defunding education”
