So you can call it the gym membership problem. Two people belong to a gym. One works out regularly and eats right. The other ...

A lot below: Accountability debates in Virginia, dismantling the Department of Education, Ross Wiener’s op-ed, the national voucher tax credit, and child protective services. Plus – when Starlee ...

On a Substack live Thursday, I sat down with teacher Jaime Osborne, and parent Todd Truitt, for a discussion about pedagogy and content and why and how your child might be getting shortchanged. Jaime ...

Next week, on April 29th, I’ll talk with Dr. Sonja Santelises, outgoing CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools on her run in Baltimore and what she’s learned. You can join and ask questions. That’s ...

Jed and I talk AI, education politics, Virginia, and Target boycotts on a New WonkyFolk. Is Liz Cohen right that we need a need a Dry January for ed tech? That and more. You can listen where you get ...

In Eduwonk today, new WonkyFolk, some VA news, 2025 holiday books. This is probably the last post of the year. There was some noise about a possible big announcement from the administration before ...

Light posting this summer — a lot of time on the road, for both work and play. Last weekend I rode my bike from Worcester to Provincetown in the Pan-Mass Challenge, raising money for the Dana-Farber ...

There’s a popular narrative that government doesn’t work that well lately – and budget brinksmanship in Washington this week certainly underscores that there is some truth to that. Yet underneath the ...

It’s the first week of January so here’s the In and Out list (2023 here and 2022 here). It’s unscientific, it’s impressionistic, and it’s informed by your emails so keep sending them. Happy New Year.

My colleague Marisa Mission and I sat down with Ben Kornell to talk AI and ed te c h f o r h i s E d T e c h I n s i d e r s p odcast. We ranged across a few things including my belief that human ...

And I talked Charm City education with departing schools CEO Sonja Santelises. Today at 2p ET/11a PT Indiana state chief Katie Jenner, former SD state chief, CCSSO president, and Metametrics VP Melody ...

You want bad camera angles (me) but fantastic timely federal education policy content (Lindsay) then this 30 minute primer by federal policy hand Lindsay Fryer will get you up to speed on what you ...