Michael Hartney (@michaelthartney) 's Twitter Profile
Michael Hartney

@michaelthartney

Political scientist @BostonCollege, @HooverInst, @ManhattanInst. Author, "How Policies Make Interest Groups" (@UChicagoPress)

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Andrew Rotherham (@arotherham) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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/…

Vladimir Kogan (@vkoganpolisci) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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…

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…
John Arnold (@johnarnoldfndtn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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.

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.
Martin West (@profmartywest) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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…

John Arnold (@johnarnoldfndtn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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 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.
Hoover Institution (@hooverinst) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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:

Greg Lukianoff (@glukianoff) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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