President Trump didn’t say much about schools today in his Inauguration Speech, but the little he did say was inaccurate, bombastic, and pretty insulting to a lot of us. That particular section is highlighted at the top of this post.
Libby Nelson at Vox has a useful, though not perfect, analysis of it (see Trump’s vision of education begins and ends with schools being bad), so I’m not going to say much more (You can also read this Ed Week piece).
But you might be interested in these related “Best” lists:
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ADDENDUM:
Trump defenders have begun sharing this chart, which education researchers have been dismissing for a long time as one of the worst and most inaccurate they have seen. You can read more about it at my previous post, Education Research & “The Graph That Will Never Die.”
Trump says our edu system is "flush with cash" but failing our students. Factcheck: true. #TrumpInauguration #Inauguration #SchoolChoice pic.twitter.com/mukSkY7qlP
— Inez Stepman (@InezFeltscher) January 20, 2017
An education system flush with cash? Hmm. What about all the non-funded federal, special education laws, which take money away from the General funds of the state’s public schools?
The real question we need to be asking is not, “why doesn’t billy Jr care, but why doesn’t billy Sr. care?”
Parents and the students are never held accountable, only the schools.