Guys, good news! No reading problem. (Ignore the debate about proficient, just go to the NAGB website, look the percentages of students who are *below basic" and look at the standards/items and decide if you think that is OK.) washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

When asked "what makes one school better than another?" parents FAR more likely to say academics/learning than nonparents. Yet nonparents are majority of voters in school board elections. Should not be surprised achievement doesn't matter much. Source: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.310…

Illinois: “Not lowering standards; just matching reality.” Euphemism of the year.

Coffee shops should have a special line, like TSA Pre-Check, for people ordering just black coffee.

Since the state took over Houston schools in '23, HISD has undergone one most remarkable turnarounds ever in urban ed. Results released today show # of A & B rated schools rose from 93→197 while D & F schools fell 121→18 in 2 years. Yet this is how local paper covered the news.

Congrats to Vladimir Kogan on today's release via Cambridge University Press of No Adult Left Behind, my early nominee for the book of the year on education politics. And don't miss this excerpt in Education Next. educationnext.org/how-adult-cult…

Zach Groshell James V. Shuls Neal McCluskey Institute for Governance and Civics Michael Hartney deserves the credit, he came up with it! I got a pay him 10% of royalties!

The gap between a great teacher and a bad one is as wide as in any profession, yet their own union insists on treating them as interchangeable cogs in a machine.

The reason Vanderbilt's popularity is soaring...

John Arnold Vanderbilt University Chancellor Diermeier is a paragon of reason - the job of a University is to inculcate critical thinking skills, not indoctrinate.

EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE! WE’RE BACK!!!!

New from Fordham @Wallacefdn David Houston & Michael Hartney Who’s on Board? School Boards and Political Representation in an Age of Conflict fordhaminstitute.org/national/resea… Fordham Institute

This just in: 90% of kids want ice cream for dinner. Good thing we have adults to call these shots.

The original Fordham Institute Checker Finn on why America’s kids might do better if we all heeded Vladimir Kogan.

Hoover fellow Michael Hartney and @D_M_Houston find that while school boards mirror the public on ideology, they differ on key issues such as charter schools and local school quality. Tap the image below to read the full study, with a foreword by Michael Petrilli and Adam Tyner:

Please pray for Catturd at this difficult hour

We’ve defended higher ed from both government overreach and ideological litmus tests. But now academia’s biggest guild says diversity of thought itself is “anathema“ denying even the existence of the most basic and obvious problem in higher education. Admitting a lack of

For the first time since 1950, #17 Vanderbilt Football is 6-1 to start the season! 👏

Why is it always reviewer 2?