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Shameful Betsy DeVos can’t say what most human beings can say with ease

By Matthew Dicks | June 19, 2017 |

Here is the Secretary of Education for the United States of America, the caretaker of our public schools, the protector of our children’s future, and also a person who has never taught in a school, never worked in a public school, and never sent her children to a public school, trying her hardest to avoid…

Trumpian typos abound – and frighten me to death

By Matthew Dicks | February 13, 2017 |

ALL OF THIS JUST ON SUNDAY: The US Department of Education published a tweet that spelled W.E.B. Du Bois’s name incorrectly. That error stood for four hours before it was finally corrected. The Department of Education then apologized, with another typo: “Our deepest apologizes for the earlier typo…” Great start for Betsy DeVos. Or DuVos.…

I might know more about education than Trump’s nominee for Education Secretary.

By Matthew Dicks | January 18, 2017 |

Betsy DeVos is Donald Trump’s nominee for Education Secretary. Here are some facts that emerged from yesterday’s Senate confirmation hearing: She called the public school systems a “dead end” even though she did not attend a public school, did not send her children to public schools, and never taught in a public school. She has…