Michael Petrilli

Should the feds reject Idaho’s and Alabama’s waiver requests? SCHOOLED | Friday, 3/6/26

A good example that you never know when a study will get attention! A now old study on limited cross-state teacher mobility was just featured in @michaelpetrilli.bsky.social's Schooled: schooledbymikepetrilli.substack.com/p/should-the...

(and apparently in @mattyglesias.bsky.social's Substack). 👇

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Can Talarico win in November? Plus, were prediction markets right or wrong about Texas? And did Talarico beat Crockett because he was more moderate?

I didn't know until I read this @natesilver538x.bsky.social
post that @jamestalarico.bsky.social is a former middle school teacher AND led the fight against Texas's voucher program.

www.natesilver.net/p/can-talari...

Overall, Amber Northern's report seems to underscore the important role of #IES in providing the baseline data and research infrastructure that supports so much of what we know about improvement in #education #eddata ies.ed.gov/learn/blog/r...

U.S. Department of Education Receives Recommendations to Reform the Institute of Education Sciences Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon received a report from U.S. Department of Education Senior Advisor Dr. Amber Northern with suggestions on how to reform the Institute for Education Sci...

The Department of Education has released recommendations to reform the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), which is the research and statistics arm of the Department.

Worth a read - many potentially promising ideas in here, worth serious discussion.

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U.S. Department of Education Receives Recommendations to Reform the Institute of Education Sciences Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon received a report from U.S. Department of Education Senior Advisor Dr. Amber Northern with suggestions on how to reform the Institute for Education Sci...

Congratulations to my Fordham Institute colleague Amber Northern on the publication of her FANTASTIC report to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, Reimagining the Institute of Education Sciences. Read it now! www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

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Fixing grade inflation via clear policies and cultural change SCHOOLED | Friday, 2/27/26

Over at SCHOOLED, our discussion about grade inflation continues, with great suggestions on how to tamp it down from Bibb Hubbard, Mike Goldstein, Dale Chu, Thibaut Delloue, @davidbnitkin.bsky.social, and Kevin Teasley, among others. Check it out! schooledbymikepetrilli.substack.com/p/fixing-gra...

Every State Should Challenge Plyler v. Doe: Time to End Free Education for Illegal Alien K–12 Students In 2025, six states introduced legislation or a rule concerning illegal alien K–12 students in public schools. The measures range from collecting immigration status and reporting the data to state off...

Makes me sick to my stomach. Ronald Reagan weeps.

Heritage Foundation Targets Undocumented Students’ Access to Free Education

(Paper here: www.heritage.org/border-secur...)

www.edweek.org/leadership/p...

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Can states do anything about grade inflation? SCHOOLED | Friday, 2/20/26

Can states do anything about grade inflation?

I've got a few ideas, but none of them are slam dunks. Do you have thoughts? schooledbymikepetrilli.substack.com/p/can-states...

Cover of book by Nick Gibb and Robert Peal, Reforming Lessons: Why English Schools Have Improved Since 2010 and How This Was Achieved

TODAY'S MUST READ

What American Education Reformers Can Learn from England, via Helen Baxendale & @educationnext.bsky.social www.educationnext.org/what-america...

Did the end of affirmative action lead to fewer Black and Hispanic students? Most people believed the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision to end affirmative action would cause a big drop in Black and Hispanic enrollment at the nation’s top colleges. What actually happened is more co...

The end of affirmative action helped mostly white women, not white men:

"Among 71 private, highly selective colleges, only 72 more white male students enrolled in 2024 than in the previous fall. (White women increased by 479 students at those colleges.)"

hechingerreport.org/after-affirm...

Did the state get the money back?

Thanks Adam

ICE and ed reform In private conversations, and at policy conferences, education reformers are increasingly asking whether we should join the resistance against ICE. Some of you will surely think that this question is ...

I don’t represent an education reform organization, but I would sign this letter penned by @michaelpetrilli.bsky.social fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...

SCHOOLED | Michael J. Petrilli | Substack SCHOOLED is Michael J. Petrilli’s twice-weekly newsletter restarting the ed reform conversation. Expect sharp analysis, curated commentary, and lively debates—including from YOU. This is one newslette...

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A way forward on ICE for ed reformers, with perspectives from @deniseforte.bsky.social @conorpwilliams.bsky.social @karenvaites.bsky.social & @radiokeri.bsky.social.

A narrow focus on reinstating schools as safe zones can attract broad support. Demanding everyone join the ICE #resistance will not.

The Effects of Immigration Enforcement on Student Outcomes in a New Era of Immigration Policy in the United States Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

At minimum I'd like to see reformers acknowledge that ICE is compromising schools' ability to operate in accordance with Plyler v. Doe. It would also be great to see attention to the evidence on this issue www.nber.org/papers/w34452

Right, that's what I meant. Toward the end of his term (in 2024 I believe) he was able to stop the huge flow of migrants across the border by changing the asylum rules--without legislation. (After Trump killed the bipartisan immigration bill, of course.)

I'm with you except for the asylum part. The Biden folks figured out how to change that without legislation, too. Clearly it was abused.

Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived

Anyone who believes in the rule of law should oppose stopping people based on their assumed race/ethnicity, attempting to change established asylum law by force rather than through legislation, targeting children, and creating an environment of state terror.

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Should education reformers join the resistance against ICE? SCHOOLED | Friday, 2/6/26

Should education reformers join the resistance against ICE? schooledbymikepetrilli.substack.com/p/should-edu...

With all due respect, Josh, former Education Secretary Rod Paige, who died in December, used to say that, and he had every right to do so, having grown up in segregated Mississippi and having participated in key Civil Rights moments himself. And lot of people mean it sincerely.

I'm with the teachers unions on this one, which is not something I say often. Schools are for learning, not immigration enforcement.

Minnesota teachers sue to keep ICE off school property Two school districts and a teachers union allege that the immigration crackdown has spilled onto campuses and interrupted the functioning of schools across the state.

Minnesota teachers sue to keep ICE off school property

Two school districts and a teachers union allege that the immigration crackdown has spilled onto campuses and interrupted the functioning of schools across the state. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...