"Democrats can’t be the party that believes in equity as a core principle while simultaneously being complacent about math scores still languishing below pre-pandemic levels and reading scores hitting their lowest in more than 30 years." washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

Wow: "In 2023, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ American Time Use Survey, about a quarter of Americans reported eating all of their meals alone the previous day, an increase of 53 percent since 2003."

.The Boston Globe editorial board: "The fractious debate leading up to the board’s rejection provides a bracing study in the intransigence and sometimes pretzel logic of the state’s education establishment toward public charter schools, even very good ones." bostonglobe.com/2025/03/31/opi…

🤑🤑Shout out to The Women's Game for bringing this new report to my attention (among other important things of course): Revenue from women’s sports to top $2.3B in 2025. The projection more than triples the 2023 total (!!!) sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2025/…

🫠 No tests, no problems I guess. Students are all doing great—we can all go home! "If we stop testing America’s students, we’ll have fewer bad headlines about how poorly they’re doing." Appreciated this column from Jessica Grose ⬇️⬇️ nytimes.com/2025/04/02/opi…

"There are a lot of ways policymakers could expand public school choice options, if they’re willing to listen to their constituents." ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Going absolutely as niche as I can

As always, I am rooting for Dan Moore! Give this guy a medal

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨"The reading skills of American high school seniors are the worst they have been in three decades, according to new federal testing data ... In math, 12th graders had the lowest performance since 2005." nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/…

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Maine next, please. wsj.com/opinion/califo…

Breaks my heart. Every kid deserves to be loved and accepted for exactly who they are by the adults in their life and the community around them.

Great story from The Assembly and yet another data point in my argument for why Tar Heel Mainers and Mainer Tar Heels are the absolute best. 🩵🌲theassemblync.com/education/high…

"Job openings have decreased 32% since ChatGPT’s debut," per FORTUNE

It's hard with so many new faces in NC to understand how this is the passing of an era. Read the remarks from both sides of the aisle. A time when partisans could battle it out in the legislature and cheers to beers hours later. An NC man with impact well beyond state lines.

One of the great ones, in and out of office. Cared about student learning in a deep way.

The absolute greatest. Completely dedicated to the children of North Carolina. May he rest in peace 🩵

Yikes. Some VERY concerning responses from Maine teacher prep program leaders in this The Maine Monitor piece ⬇️⬇️⬇️ themainemonitor.org/teacher-prep-p…

Happy to have my byline again in EducationNC! Maine's free community college program has increased enrollment in MCCS and boosted transfers to the University of Maine system—but state lawmakers declined to continue funding it last year.