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Anarchy and Overregulation in American Education
“Look on my AI-Generated Art, ye Mighty, and despair!” Theories of Progress is a series from Education Progress building the intellectual framework for durable education reform: why the system resists improvement, what excellence actually requires, and what history tells us about how to build it. TODAY’S WORLD is a world of regulations.
Education Progress on Chalk & Talk!
Today we’re excited to share our conversation with Anna Stokke on Episode 71 of the Chalk & Talk podcast. Thomas and David join Anna to pick up where her guest piece left off, delving deeper into the uses and abuses of “research shows” in education. One useful way we’ve been thinking about the obstacles to evidence-based instruction is the distinction between misunderstanding and conviction in education.
Assuming a Frictionless Surface
This article was my submission to the Fordham Institute’s 2026 Wonkathon contest, which asks what rules and regulations should govern the use of technology in the schools. You can read my article on their website here. Charting the Course is a series from Education Progress featuring pro-excellence education commentary, news, and policy analysis. 1. Frictionless Surfaces Much talk about how edtech can or should be used in the schools reminds me of a particular type of high school physics problem.
Through the Looking Glass, and What Schools Found There
The first in a new set of posts on AI in schools and the history and future of educational technology.1 Theories of Progress is a series from Education Progress building the intellectual framework for durable education reform: why the system resists improvement, what excellence actually requires, and what history tells us about how to build it.
Everyday Life is Full of Math
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Anarchy and Overregulation in American Education
A structural theory of America’s education dysfunction. THE STORY is remarkably different for education. The theory I will try to articulate over a few posts, starting with this one, is that education has been uniquely misregulated — so much so that we’ve landed in a paradoxical position where the educational landscape should be understood as a system that is simultaneously anarchic and overregulated.
Center for Educational Progress
“Look on my AI-Generated Art, ye Mighty, and despair!” Theories of Progress is a series from Education Progress building the intellectual framework for durable education reform: why the system resists improvement, what excellence actually requires, and what history tells us about how to build it. TODAY’S WORLD is a world of regulations.
No one wants to talk about excellence in public schools
How did we get here? Neither major party seems to care about excellence in education — not really, not in a way that translates into serious policy. Democrats have abandoned it for equity theater. Republicans have abandoned it for embarrassingly easy culture war wins. And American students are caught in the middle, their education held hostage by a political system that has forgotten what schools are actually for. This is a story about how we got to this impasse, and what it might take to get out.
On tolerating authoritarianism
Last week I unfortunately read yet another misguided opinion piece defending authoritarians against the prejudice they supposedly face in the current political climate. Hidden behind a thin veneer of liberalism, this type of opinion — which always mistakes a blind lack of judgment for impartiality, and an absence of ethical standards for tolerance — should usually just be ignored. But since this one directly criticized a community of which I am a part, I felt a sting of motivation to respond.
It’s a hookup culture, not a rape culture
Sexual assault has undoubtedly entrenched itself deep within the minds and lives of college students everywhere. Naturally, such a broad toxification demands attention and remedy; regrettably, efforts which attempt to address the notorious substance-induced assault have been starkly misguided and ill-informed.
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