The progressive attack on academic achievement has gained a foothold on the left and poses a serious threat to both American public education and the Democratic Party. jonathanchait writes
The recent pandemic school-closing experiment gave many American parents their first exposure to an exotic strain of thought on the American left about public schooling: that learning loss is nothing to worry about because educational outcomes are fake or unimportant.
What’s most interesting about the op-ed is its candid admission that the education backlash, which progressives have dismissed as overblown, is very real.
Their claim that Democrats supported better schools “rather than” labor unions and a more progressive tax code is patently false. As a matter of logic, there’s obviously no trade-off between progressive taxation and better schools. In fact, Obama worked to strengthen labor unions and successfully reduced taxes at the bottom and raised them at the top.
There are a couple astonishing beliefs packed into this sentence. First, it asserts that the backlash to the progressive education agenda comes solely from “affluent liberals.” The fiercest backlash to the progressive attack on magnet schools has come from working-class Asian Americans. The authors themselves concede elsewhere in this op-ed that “centrist parents” in Virginia joined this backlash.
This has produced a paradoxical situation in which many education experts are demanding elected officials care less about their field of specialization, a reversal of the normal order of things in which specialists plead with policy-makers to care about their subject more.
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