"In short: Some therapists are much more effective than others. Treatment type accounts for at most one percent of the variance in patient outcomes. Therapist identity accounts for five to eight percent." bit.ly/4vrOqjj
"School is fine, but money is better. You don’t need school if you’ve got money. Money is more important than knowing some dead guy or the capital of Beijing. Use your Trump crypto to buy Trump t-shirts and hats, very reasonably priced at our gift shop." bit.ly/4a0iXfO
"I wanted to see what this just and democratic future looked like up close. I watched buses roll up with legions of Chicago middle schoolers." bit.ly/3Puwwgn
"Students understand texts better when they have knowledge about the world—the classic example is that kids get more out of reading a story about baseball if they are familiar with the game." bit.ly/4dQ2vQh
"That suite of characteristics is what ultimately serves as this book’s throughline and takeaway. It helps the reader understand why Alexander was so successful as a state leader and why his reflections on that time seem so smooth and charming." bit.ly/3S7oISE
"In the past few years, 22 states and the District of Columbia have passed “bell-to-bell” laws, which prohibit students from accessing cellphones throughout the entire school day." bit.ly/4v2EWLp
"Consider Wake County Public School System, the largest school district in North Carolina and the 14th largest in the United States. The 2026–27 traditional school calendar schedules 177 days when students will attend school and 17 teacher workdays." bit.ly/4vuEqpA
"A lot of people fall into the trap of thinking all the action happens in Washington. That may be true on taxes, tariffs, or interest rates, but in education the real action is most often in state legislatures and state supreme courts." bit.ly/4vNR3MH
"But there are exceptions. Schools of education with exorbitantly high tuition are likely to see their students’ borrowing constrained under the new loan limits." bit.ly/3QPtYKe
"Over the past half century, average student performance has stagnated, and large socioeconomic disparities have continued despite significantly increased resources for schools and a series of reforms..." bit.ly/4v4g06B
"It’s not like Washington can afford any of this. The U.S. borrowed $1.8 trillion last year, will borrow another $2 trillion this year, and is looking at steadily growing debt as far as the eye can see." bit.ly/4ogm21k
"You should be very honored. We’re celebrating the White House’s 250th birthday. That’s right. It was right here, 250 years ago, that George Washington made America great." bit.ly/4a0iXfO
"A year in the making, the report is a comprehensive document analyzing why trust in institutions of higher education has declined so precipitously and how Yale, as one such institution, should combat it." bit.ly/43ItOaE
David Figlio, the Gordon Fyfe Professor of Economics and Education at the University of Rochester, is this week's guest on the Education Exchange podcast. bit.ly/43l8U1m
"Critically, a narrow focus on whether students are achieving at pre-pandemic levels obscures the fact that the recent declines in education outcomes began in 2013—well before the pandemic disrupted schooling—and have generally persisted since." bit.ly/4v4g06B
How State Courts Are Quietly Shaping U.S. Education: SCOTUS rulings get a lot of airtime, but ed reformers’ eyes should be on decisions coming from state benches. bit.ly/4vNR3MH
"But the prudence of Texas’s judgment should not matter. The Constitution does not prevent states from doing unwise things; it only prevents them from doing unconstitutional things." bit.ly/4e3TrIR
"The reasoning went like this: If we acknowledge dyslexia exists, the school would be on the hook for paying for specialized resources. That would be a costly option. Better to pretend it didn’t exist." bit.ly/3R9ilOy