As spring finally arrives in Washington, three very different education stories have been the talk of the town. The now-infamous Varsity Blues scandal, the release of President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2020 education budget proposal, and some unusual research about school reformers each reveal something about the increasingly complex nature of the education in America. Each also makes it clear that politics and power now have just as much influence over education as policy and practice. While these stories did not teach me anything about education I did not already know, they did make that knowledge a little harder to bear.
Politics and power now have just as much influence over education as policy and practice.
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