Chad Borseth

@robkhenderson "Political Parties" Robert Michels? Thanks for advocating for us underliners and margin fillers:)

@BisforBerkshire yahoo.com/news/articles/…

Note that Polis is also the only Dem (so far) to officially sign onto Trump’s school voucher plan

@EDSecMcMahon Could an SGOs also be structured to direct donations/funds toward both traditional public schools and public charter schools?

Does the Education Freedom Tax Credit divert money from public schools? No. It encourages voluntary charitable giving to expand education opportunities for qualifying students, including tutoring, private school scholarships, and services for students with disabilities.

🧵 I’m in Wisconsin today, where Governor Evers has refused to opt his state into President Trump’s Education Freedom Tax Credit,  falsely claiming it would hurt public schools. Here’s the truth about how the Education Freedom Tax Credit actually works:

@jessesmithsoc It’s not about advocating for conservative scholars as much as it is about advocating for the access of scholars with diverse exoeriences, perspectives and insights... who may open new avenues for research and inquiry.

Re-reading my paper on the need for political diversity in social science. One of the points I make is that you need actual conservatives to ask questions, scrutinize claims, provide counterarguments or alternative interpretations, etc. It's not enough for progressive social scientists to ask themselves how a conservative might respond to their work, because they won't know and they're likely to straw-man. I call this the failure of artificial viewpoint diversity. It occurs to me, though, that you could train a chatbot to be your conservative critic (or progressive, or any other opposing perspective, as the case may be). This still wouldn't be a full substitute for a real human critic, but it would probably be a lot better than expecting people to effectively self-critique via thought experiment. To be clear, I am not proposing the need for conservative scholars can be satisfied via chatbots—among other reasons, because AI's cannot undertake their own research agendas! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Study: Wealthy students are more likely to get disability accommodations buff.ly/JP82O3R

@DonAllen02 Congrats Dr. Don!

The hooding of Dr. Allen.

"The good news is that Democrats are finally admitting what parents, advocates, and researchers have known for years: The party doesn’t have a credible, student-centered education agenda." bit.ly/3PyAYKQ

@walterkirn That's funny

I don't think Marxists like UFOs and the idea of Non-Human intelligences somehow. They are old-school materialists and think socialist man is the pinnacle of life in the universe. And they dislike mysteries in general, as people who have had it all figured out since the 1800s.

There’s growing demand for electricians but the talent pipeline isn’t keeping pace. In @MinnPost, our client Laketown Electric Corp. makes the case: if we want more people in the trades, we need to build better career pathways, compensation & culture. minnpost.com/community-voic…

@0Beanie05923291 @Doug_Lemov Agree! #ChadMath

"Math fact fluency is often misunderstood as memorization. In reality, it functions as a cognitive support system. When foundational knowledge becomes automatic, persistence increases, frustration decreases, reasoning improves, and confidence grows. Automaticity doesn’t replace thinking, it creates the space for understanding." @SamanthaBrauns2

@ldsand You can’t call it “complicit” if there was never any initial difference between the district and the union's agendas.

Public employee unions in L.A. hold children hostage, and the school district is complicit. larrysand.substack.com/p/the-lost-ang…

Pretty good article featuring a caring and hardworking colleague! npr.org/2026/04/26/g-s…

"Fuller and Williams pursued school choice in Milwaukee out of frustration with a public school system that refused to do what was necessary to educate Black children." bit.ly/4ciChXQ

@rpondiscio @matthewladner @AzSvor @ErikaDonalds Parents are not a tightly aligned special interest group with millions of dollars and a unified agenda….

@matthewladner @AzSvor @ErikaDonalds I don't love testing, but neither do I sentimentalize schooling and education before the current testing regime. If we don't accept "trust teachers and send more money" from the teachers unions, I don't see how we can say "trust parents and send money."

If you added up the dollars public schools spend on trips and activities to "reward" students after annual state tests are done, without even the pretense of any academic benefit, you could fund ESAs until the sun goes out.

@RBeeGee156387 @JamesAFurey A value-added model serves the family... the current education model serves the institution. When schools see themselves as the primary customer, they cease to be a service for children/families and become, as many have noted, a job placement agency for adults.

Customer service works for inanimate, not living products. The better model is a refinery model. The incoming product to refine is always assayed to see if it comes up to the level that allows it to be refined. If not, it's returned to another plant that can improve it to the level ready for refinement. Good input = good output. Bad input does not produce good output.

Schools can’t continue to operate on the customer service model unless we realize that much of the behavior teachers see in the classroom day to day would get someone kicked out of any respectable establishment. Everywhere you go, there are rules. Lack of enforcement in any space leads to chaos.

@JamesAFurey Public schools are not failing because they are too customer-service driven. They are failing because they too often act like closed institutions... demanding compliance, resisting scrutiny, and operating with little accountability.

@MrDanielBuck @MichaelPetrilli A feeling that I’m merely rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

Why do teachers quit? Maybe it’s the thrown chairs, the students screaming “fucking bitch,” biting them, disrespecting them, and refusing to follow the simplest commands like “please sit down” I dunno. Maybe that has something to do with it fordhaminstitute.org/national/comme…

@rpondiscio freire

I know my answer to this but I’m curious about what others think: when I was a kid, my parents would have reflexively sided with the teacher if I misbehaved in school. What’s changed and why?