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Federal Policy
- The way to educational improvement may be through affirming the “distracting” values raised by the culture wars
- Trump’s first Secretary of Education offers advice to his second
- Amateur policymakers think government service is about aspiration. Professionals know it’s about perspiration.
- The one-term president campaigned for parochial school aid, then abandoned it as too costly
- Education journalists are subjecting Trump’s second SecEd nominee to the same smear campaign as his first, reminding us why the media has lost credibility