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.

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.

the74million.org/article/matthe… @dbroockman @j_kalla

“Teachers’ work is important and should be well-compensated, but that means paying to retain the people who are good at it, not just arbitrarily paying more for whoever happens to have been in the job longest.”

nymag.com/intelligencer/… @MatthewStieb

“@KevinTDugan is among a growing cohort of New York City public-school parents who view AI use in the classroom as parasitic—siphoning their children’s intellectual curiosity, capacity for boredom, and data in order to make money.”

Princeton’s Honor Code survived world wars, protests, and 133 years of campus life. AI broke it in barely three years.

With just weeks until the primary, California’s state superintendent race is basically a 10-way tie… which feels oddly fitting for the current state of education politics.

nbcnews.com/news/education… @moultano @CurriculumIP @parthurgraff

“Nearly one-third of students from kindergarten to 12th grade nationwide use i-Ready, including in nine of the 10 largest school districts.” @tylerkingkade via @NBCNews

Why is Asbury Park paying three superintendents while offering ZERO AP courses?