Jonathan Butcher
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@JM_Butcher
@Heritage; author: The Polarization Myth; Splintered; snr fellow Goldwater Institute, Beacon Center. Tweets are my own.
Florida ranked last for academic growth in reading amid a nationwide "learning recession." tallahassee.com/story/news/edu…
The Woodson Center Mourns the Passing of Founder and President Robert L. Woodson, Sr. - A visionary leader whose life's work transformed communities from the inside out. Read the full statement here: woodsoncenter.org/news-and-media…
The Woodson Center Mourns the Passing of Founder and President Robert L. Woodson, Sr. - A visionary leader whose life's work transformed communities from the inside out. Read the full statement here: woodsoncenter.org/news-and-media…
The world has lost a giant of a human being. With the passing of the great @BobWoodson I have lost my friend, mentor and guidepost whose life exemplified virtue in action. Just a few weeks ago, in one of Bob’s last public appearances, I had a Fireside Chat with Bob in front our students in the Bronx at @VertexAcademies / vertexacademies.org/about/bob-wood… Not surprisingly Bob shared so much wisdom and grace. Just one - “Never allow yourself to be defined by the challenges in your life. Take enough strength from those who love you to overcome those who do not.” I will miss Bob. The power of Bob’s faith and enduring legacy will live on through me and tens of thousands of people lucky enough to have known him and who were inspired by his lived example. Please read the full statement: woodsoncenter.org/the-woodson-ce…
Follow us @azlovesesas to hear why parents love the Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Account program and why they are against the two education ballot initiatives!
Mr. Yuval Levin, Senior Fellow @AEI, reflects on the role of Congress: "If we're going to have a politics in which deliberation plays a central role, we have to have a politics in which Congress plays a central role. That part can only be played by a plural institution that is both representative and deliberative, and that is what Congress is designed to be." … "We are living in a political moment where the deepest differences do not get worked out, and we've persuaded ourselves that this is because we're polarized, or it's because we're divided, or it's social media. We're not more polarized than the America of the late eighteenth century. We're not more divided than the America of the mid-nineteenth century. These technologies have not changed human nature or the character of politics. The core institution of our system now does not want the role it is assigned, and that is what has to change."
