Matthew Yglesias is doing incredible public service work producing “identify the flaw in this argument” exercises for education policy students. And for professors, he offers free exam questions with no cognitive offloading, prompting, or energy use. Bless his heart.
He even mentions the causal lit on school spending and then proceeds to use unadjusted correlations between spending and outcomes. I guess he only thinks the lit applies to capital expenditures and not to increasing teacher pay?
why isn't the Muslim mayor taking this opportunity to talk about how all Muslims are bad?
1) There are states other than California and Mississippi.
2) There are nationwide tests that measure things other than Grade 4 reading.
3) There are measurable education outcomes other than test scores.
Who among us hasn't subsidized a European vacation, or visited Petra, on the state of Arizona's taxpayers?
Two different account holders. This is outrageous, and fully allowable under Arizona's ESA policy.
[Dates are dates submitted, not dates on which expense happened.]
My extremely hot take- this will reduce funding available for education in Mississippi and not help with the “Mississippi Miracle” of 4th grade reading scores
I always wondered when this exact scenario would happen with a voucher program. Curious what the legal scholars think.
A few new slides - and why the future is brighter in California than in Florida - diverging approaches on education investment (not to mention ideological bs in FL)
CA doing this w 20% EL rate too. Think this is the result of LCFF, flawed as it is?
This is beyond evil villain behavior. Just deeply inhumane and cruel.
Storytime - for those who seem to want to push some "southern" miracle in public schooling - using Mississippi as their exemplar, but implying "red state" strategies are the policy solution - First - Mississippi doesn't catch Mass or NJ - but states like AZ & FL fall to or below Mississippi:
Another quick story time - About those unsustainable "huge" staffing increases while public schools bleed enrollments. First - those enrollments (overall)
I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
This is really excellent, glad to see you given the space to go big with this @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
“It’s going horrendously. I don’t mean there have been a few minor speed bumps; I mean the bus is pancaked, Wile E. Coyote–style, against the side of the mountain.“ www.theringer.com/2026/01/21/m...
New article with @schoolfinance101.bsky.social rethinking cause and consequence in U.S. school funding inequality, highlighting how an emphasis on consequences has sidelined deeper, historical causes, and why QuantCrit offers a path forward. Please read/share!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
more americans than ever say that ICE should be abolished www.gelliottmorris.com/p/support-fo...
These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country
My kitchen table issue is “don’t shoot people at their kitchen tables”
This @schoolfinance101.bsky.social post on reforms for Florida makes a good point relevant to #ncpol efforts to limit property taxes: "The most effective form of property tax relief is increased state aid"
schoolfinance101.com/2025/12/29/s...
I talked to him a while back for My Worst Moment and he talked about how comfortable he was improvising and that he improvised that super extra-long version of “shiiiiit” on “The Wire”
Gift 🔗
A really important piece. The times when we have opened our country to talented people from around the world are among the moments when America has been truly great. Trump is destroying that legacy and fomenting unconscionable racism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Oh good lord.
No it didn't, that isn't true.
In a terrible year, the Knicks are giving me some joy and hope.
incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works
