PRAYING MANTIS: A professor who has studied what DeVos did to Detroit’s schools calls her appointment as education secretary “the triumph of ideology over evidence.”
THERE WAS A BRIEF MOMENT IN MID -NOVEMBER WHEN EDUCATION REFORMER SWERE THRILLED ABOUT PRESIDENT ELECT DONALD TRUMP’S SWAMP DRAINING IMPERATIVE AND WHAT IT MIGHT ME AN FOR THE NATION’S ETERNALLY BELEAGUERED PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
On November 16, Trump met at his Manhattan tower with Eva Moskowitz, whose Success Academy charter network has achieved impressive results with children of color across New York City. The following weekend, he entertained Michelle Rhee, the former head of Washington, D.C.’s public schools, at his golf club in New Jersey. Despite her uneven results, Rhee remains popular with those who think incompetent teachers and the unions that protect them are holding back America’s kids.