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Hearing that the “The gop nomination is totally qualified…” makes me think that there’s either a misprint or they’re up to something nefarious…
I dove a bit into the nominations a while ago. Many are qualified, but the ones that aren't are impressively unqualified.
Why do they have a secretary of education if their is no department of education?
So people will learn what the Trump administration is all about!
I don't think being Tennessee's Commissioner of Education is the flex this writer thinks it is.
Schwinn’s biggest claim to fame was an all-hands-on-deck initiative designed to shift reading instruction from the terrible 3-cueing system that teaches kids to guess words, to one that is science-based.
I listened to the Educate podcast from APM Reports. They did tons of stories on learning to read, the bad teaching, the good teaching, it was heartbreaking because of shit like this. The cueing system didn't teach kids to sound out words. It taught them to guess at words based on context. The specific example they gave was that the illustration and the words around the one you didn't know might make you guess "horse" when really it was "donkey."
I'm an avid reader and fan of education. This lady sounds like she knows her stuff. I'm pretty shocked, given all the other appointments. I'm full of dread about what might come next, but tepidly appreciate her appointment.
Considering this is an opinion piece from an author who spends most of her time writing about how she thinks teachers unions make it impossible to provide good education to kids I think this is probably just another right wing attempt attack democracy by screaming "think of the children"
Either way, the cueing system is nonsense.
Either way, Republicans being in control of education policy is nonsense. It's not going to matter what reading system they use if they're trying to teach a trans student ~~whose~~ who's being harassed by their state's laws, or a student who is distracted by reasonable fears of being shot, or by hunger because they don't have any food at home. This person could be the most skilled and impassioned champion of education ever but she's never going to be able to help kids Republicans decide are unworthy working for this administration.
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Any thoughts on this? I don't know her, other than what's in the article. And I'm not familiar with the structure of the DOE. Will she, as deputy secretary, be able to do anything to stop them from shutting down the department?
I am not American, but I have lived in North America, Europe and Asia.
Typically when a new oligarch gang takes over, their priority is providing benefits to themselves and their senior affiliates. Everything else is cover for the plebs.
It is very likely Schwinn is more of a PR move to provide rhetorical cover for their criminal activities. Schwinn is either in on the scheme and was paid off or is dumb enough to think she can change the system from within or that American institutions will magically resolve everything.
Don't hope for magical solutions.
Strong democratic institutions are good and all, but they have a tendency to fail exactly at the moment that you need them most. And when democratic institutions do fail, the cost (and sacrifice/risk) to return to normalcy increases exponentially.
Since they're trying to remove the Department of Education, this makes sense, as it will make her role totally pointless
This is what I'm afraid of.
this is not a piece of journalism, this is a clearly labeled commentary piece by a who-the-fuck-knows. its likely completely made up propaganda.
Uplifting news