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Old School with Rick Hess
- How to make sense of Trump’s executive orders
- When education leadership and training are commandeered by those who dismiss the traditional work of schooling, learning suffers
- The way to educational improvement may be through affirming the “distracting” values raised by the culture wars
- Amateur policymakers think government service is about aspiration. Professionals know it’s about perspiration.
- “We believe in the power of innovative innovators to drive equitable innovation”