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Jack Schneider Profile picture
@Edu_Historian
Sep 26, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Lots of people have been reacting as if this is a big deal.
[Short thread]
chalkbeat.org/2020/9/24/2145…
But as long as school ratings are created by a private corporation *unaccountable* to the public...and as long as those ratings are baked into real estate websites...we have a problem.
[2/n]
washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sh…
This encourages shallow, competitive school-shopping.

Moreover, I have very serious doubts that a racist and classist understanding of school quality will be overturned.
[3/n]
integratedschools.org/the-problem-wi…
On the whole, I think that small changes to bad systems are generally an effort to dodge criticism rather than improve.

It will take a *lot* of sustained pressure to produce lasting change.
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Jan 30
Where did the myth of "public schools were modeled on factories" come from?

I think I finally found the smoking gun...

🧵
In 1993, David Osborne wrote "Reinventing Government." Osborne, a consultant at The Public Strategies Group, was an advisor to the Clinton/Gore White House.

These were the "New Democrats" who were going to win elections by taking a few pages out of the Republican playbook.
Osborne was convinced that markets were the solution for government inefficiency.

In his writing and public speaking, he regularly made the case that bureaucracy, administrative bloat, and the absence of competition were the source of all evil in public life.
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Oct 5, 2023
My thoughts on this extremely shallow NYT piece on grade inflation and the “devastating consequences it has for our society”…
🧵 nytimes.com/2023/10/04/opi…
For those too busy to read it, the argument goes something like this: Once upon a time we had standards...now we don't.

Example: "What's not helping? The policies many school districts are adopting that make it nearly impossible for low-performing students to fail."

2/
We're supposed to buy this logic:

If students fear failure, they'll work harder. If they work harder, they'll achieve more. If they achieve more, our economy (& etc. etc.) will be strengthened.

But students don't sufficiently fear failure, because we don't fail them enough.

3/
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Aug 22, 2023
The fight to get into Harvard is undermining your kid's K-12 education.

Here's how...

🧵
The highest-status colleges and universities select students largely on their academic records.

But what is an academic record, really? And how well does it capture what students know and can do?

2/
The first of two key components is grades. What has a student learned in a class? It's all distilled down into a single letter.

The second of the two key components is test scores, whether those be AP exam results or SAT/ACT scores. Knowledge and skill reduced to a number.

3/
Read 19 tweets
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May 24, 2023
Among school voucher advocates, the go-to metaphor has long been grocery stores.

I'm going to drop a few of my favorites here, and explain why this is absolutely bonkers.

1/
Love this one: “Just imagine if the government forced you to buy food from that awful government market down the street that sold contaminated meat, overripe fruit, and moldy bread, and was staffed by incompetent store employees..."

[Wait for the conclusion of this gem]

2/
"...We have had universal grocery choice forever. It is now time to implement educational freedom for all.”

OK. So...universal grocery choice is the rallying cry! (It gets even better.)

3/
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Apr 20, 2023
I just finished @prof_shelton's new book, The Education Myth. It's the best book I've read in a while.

1/
The book tells the story of how our national narrative about education and social mobility has limited the political possibility of real egalitarianism. At the same time, it has narrowed our understanding of what education is good for.

2/
What is that narrative? That education is the way to get ahead. You get ahead by building "human capital" and then going out onto the job market and reaping the rewards of your investment in education.

3/
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Apr 4, 2023
A quick thread on what "fund students not systems" means.
The most important thing to know is that there are really two separate camps that this movement brings together: market fundamentalists and Christian nationalists.

2/
The market fundamentalists believe that schools shouldn't be governed through democratic politics; instead, they should be directed by the invisible hand of the free market.

3/
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