Dale Chu

The scripts have officially flipped. 🔄 Democrats are now the champions of local autonomy. Republicans are leaning into state mandates. In my latest for @educationgadfly, I dive into why “local control” is now a weapon of convenience.

k12dive.com/news/achieveme… @HarvardCEPR @seda_data

Focus matters more than we usually admit in education policy.

I spoke with @lrj417 about the new NAEP expansion and what it signals for the Nation’s Report Card. “This suggests an acknowledgment that standardized testing, and comparable data across states, still matters.” More data is coming. Whether it gets used is a different question.

Twenty years from now, historians may look back and ask how a country obsessed with every political controversy somehow shrugged at the largest academic decline in generations.

apnews.com/article/edtech… @sharonlurye @jgecker

The old digital divide was about access to technology. The new digital divide is about access to limits on technology. Analog is quietly becoming a luxury good.

“Learning is seldom about swiftly generating a final product. It’s about the slow, arduous work necessary for getting to a final product.”

chalkbeat.org/2026/05/14/sta… @meltzere @Chalkbeat @JohnMannionNY22

WATCH: @Linda_McMahon suggests states could set their own rules for federal tax-credit scholarships

NCLB looks better and better in the rearview mirror.

nytimes.com/2026/05/13/us/… @matthewhaag @JonHaidt @PamelaParesky

NYU selecting Haidt for commencement and then triggering a Haidt-style controversy about it is almost perfect.

wsj.com/us-news/educat… @lindsayaellis @IgorChirikov @ChelseaSchein

We may be entering an era where grades increasingly measure AI fluency rather than subject mastery.

Ten years. Nearly every state moving backward. Will our children ever forgive us?

“No classroom from K through PhD” flattens kindergarten and graduate seminars into the same policy problem. The attention issue is real. The one-size-fits-all solution isn’t.