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29 May

The Wreckage of K-12 Education

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JL;DR SUMMARY Robert Pondiscio discusses the impact of progressive educational strategies on K-12 schooling, with a focus on how 'wokeness' has affected charter schools like KIPP. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Meritocracy  Standardized Testing  Education Reform  Charter Schools  Wokeness  Progressive Education  K 12 Education  Educational Standards  Robert Pondiscio  Success Academy 

Places mentioned

New York, United States
"If you're in the New York area, next, on June 6th, you can go to jccmanhattan.org and sign up to be at a live taping of the Call Me Back podcast with Dan Senor and his guest, Brett McGurk."
Manhattan, New York, United States
"I'm doing it for him and my friend Jeff Fage, who is helping to sponsor me. He sponsored the event at the JCC in Manhattan."
San Francisco, California, United States
"Yet another example in San Francisco of what it is that radicals in charge of American education want to do to American education."
United States
"And now you are teaching us about what life is like for teachers in the education system in the United States, particularly in the elementary and secondary schools."
Ferguson, Missouri, United States
"And then came Ferguson, Missouri, and Black Lives Matter, and 2015 to 2023, and it was a long, dark night of the soul for a lot of these schools, as you tell the story."
Michigan, United States
"America's poorest and least educationally effective state for the last 75 years, Mississippi, seems to be undergoing some kind of a reading miracle."
Texas, United States
"So stay tuned, John, because the game is afoot. As they say, this is, this is remarkable to me. I travel around the country talking about education in a lot of different places. And the conversation in red States and blue States now could not be more different. When I talk about so-called ESA, it's education savings accounts in places like Texas and Florida."
Florida, United States
"So stay tuned, John, because the game is afoot. As they say, this is, this is remarkable to me. I travel around the country talking about education in a lot of different places. And the conversation in red States and blue States now could not be more different. When I talk about so-called ESA, it's education savings accounts in places like Texas and Florida."
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
"For example, in Boston, Harvard has a clearly very friendly judge who is staying his hand and stopping him from doing things there."
Harvard University, Massachusetts, United States
"Harvard University"
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