• LeninWeave [none/use name, any]@hexbear.net
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      5 days ago

      I gave it a quick read, it turns out it’s about

      1. phone bad
      2. george bush good
      3. teacher’s union bad
      4. china bad
      5. china winning

      and the author used to the the Washington bureau chief for The Economist lmao.

    • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      It’s a professional clown seeing a real problem and twisting themselves into pretzels so they can justify the destruction of the public school system in favor of charter schools.

    • segfault11 [any]@hexbear.net
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      ok i posted this as a joke but really wtf

      Around the same time that smartphones were taking off, a counterrevolution was brewing against the old regime of No Child Left Behind, the George W. Bush–era law passed in 2002 that required schools to set high standards and measured school progress toward them through stringent testing requirements.

      huh???