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Andy Jacob

@andyjacob

Lead external relations @bellwetherorg. Husband, twin dad, @PPSConnect parent, @NBA junkie. Working to build stronger public schools. Past: @TNTP, @NYCSchools.

Portland, OR 参加日 Eylül 2008
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JaimeNotJamie
JaimeNotJamie@j_vzqz·
@WorldWideWob 9.5/10 execution - we’re missing the “Tonight’s Matchup: The Houston Rockets at The OKC Thunder” voice over
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Rob Perez
Rob Perez@WorldWideWob·
No need to wait…Peacock laser into Roundball Rock within seconds to start off the NBA on NBC pregame show.
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Aaron Levine
Aaron Levine@AaronLevine_·
So...this happened!   Next Monday night, I will be a contestant on @Jeopardy! It will air at 10:30pm in Seattle on @KOMO4 due to Monday Night Football and will stream on Peacock & Hulu starting the next morning. (1/4)
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Andy Jacob@andyjacob·
@JonesOnTheNBA I really need them to incorporate this the right way at the top of the broadcast tonight, though. I realize we aren't getting Costas-style narrative intros anymore but at least need "This is the NBA on NBC" and the announcement of the matchup timed properly to the music.
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Nate Jones
Nate Jones@JonesOnTheNBA·
NBC really cares about the NBA. I honestly wish they got The Finals back too. For this NBC return, they should have had different popular artists create their own versions of Roundball Rock too to pull in younger folks that don’t have the same nostalgia connection to it.
Blazer Banter@blazerbanter

We are sooooooooo back

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Andy Jacob
Andy Jacob@andyjacob·
This is sad on many levels, not least because focusing on raising reading and math scores to the degree Louisiana and Mississippi have would be a very popular thing for any Democratic gubernatorial candidate to run on.
Dale Chu@Dale_Chu

WATCH: Louisiana and Mississippi aren’t the punchlines they used to be. They’ve led the nation in reading gains in recent years. If you’re mocking them in 2025, you haven’t been paying attention. cc: @MikieSherrill @Jack4NJ

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John Arnold
John Arnold@johnarnold·
The peak of the ed reform movement by policymakers, philanthropists and advocates occurred from 2009-14. Much of that attention has since shifted to career pathways. That holds much promise, but if we keep turning away from the 100,000 public schools, these trends will continue.
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Andy Jacob
Andy Jacob@andyjacob·
@seanrobertgill This and the CNN theme from that year are still stuck in my head because of all the recount coverage I watched.
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Andy Jacob
Andy Jacob@andyjacob·
Hot take: I think Oregon schools should be doing better than a trajectory of taking 30 (or maybe infinity?) years to catch kids up to pre-pandemic achievement levels — even with the resources we currently have. That and some other reflections on the latest test scores below. 👇
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Andy Jacob@andyjacob·
@jlrizzoii Except the results were getting consistently better, especially for the lowest-achieving kids, for 20 years prior to the mid-2010s. So something was working better than it is now.
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Joseph Rizzo
Joseph Rizzo@jlrizzoii·
@andyjacob @mattyglesias Or, the government has been terrible running education for decades - the only thing that has really changed are the excuses and fixes.
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Andy Jacob@andyjacob·
You can make a strong argument that we're in this mess largely because we already did "return education to the states." Wild that even after years of these dismal results, no major leaders from either party are willing to just demand a renewed focus on teaching and learning.
Secretary Linda McMahon@EDSecMcMahon

Today, we learned that in 2024, nearly 80% of high school seniors were not proficient in math and nearly two-thirds of them were not proficient in reading. That is unacceptable.    We can no longer go along with the status quo. It’s time to return education to the states.

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Andy Jacob@andyjacob·
@SoritesMinor We had an era of federally-mandated focus on teaching and learning which, for all its imperfections, coincided with consistent gains, especially for the neediest kids. Then in 2015 (ESSA) we went back to basically letting states do what they want, and the progress stopped.
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Sorites the Lesser
Sorites the Lesser@SoritesMinor·
@andyjacob No. We did "No Child Left Behind", "Race to the Top", and "Common Core". All of those were nationwide. Not to mention the policy-based evidence making at the Federal level (hand-in-hand with nationwide education unions) that kept so many schools shut for a year.
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Andy Jacob@andyjacob·
@jordan_pape Most kids attend public schools even in states with universal ESAs. I think the most important thing we can do to help the most kids academically is to make public schools better at teaching them stuff (which we were doing quite consistently for ~20 years pre-2015!).
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Jordan Papé
Jordan Papé@jordan_pape·
@andyjacob The question isn’t whether or not states are better than federal officials at managing a complicated education bureaucracy. The question is why we don’t universally allow parents and students choices - allowing accountability to be driven by those consuming the service.
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