I’m a pretty hard-core edugeek, but I never even considered this option. Upside: schools will have more autonomy. Downside: schools will have more autonomy. We’ve relied on systematization by quango — public in the form of state / fed standards and court rulings, private in the form of curricula and assessments — to force education to be more progressive and ~scientific, so a move like this is messy. It’s easy to see how the right could seize on this as yet another strategy to push its reactionary rubbish. Hopefully, progressive education orgs (like teachers’ unions) will be smart and (a) fight that but, more important, (b) use it as a tool to give teachers more power. I’m not optimistic.Updated Aug 05, 2020 11:21:06 amAug 05, 2020 11:21:06 am