The Trump administration continues to appoint head-hits with anointing Millionaire Despite Linda McMahon, the Secretary of Education, he had campaigned on a pledge to abolish the department. The president has expressed his hope that McMahon will ultimately do “Get yourself out of work.”

She was part of the president’s inner political circle, but is best known as her husband and co-founder of World Wrestling Entertainment. McMahon was a wrestler himself. Her only K-12 experience was a short stint on the Connecticut Board of Education, but she feels that wrestling has shown her what every student should learn about respect, leadership and more.

But then – Surprising! – Deputy Secretary of Education Spot I went to Penny Schwin, much more famous for someone like American education writers. Schwin’s deep and impressive Masho Quickly overcome high-level administrative posts in various states, including becoming a teacher through Teach for America, as a classroom history teacher, school principal, and Texas. In 2019, at the age of 43, she became a Tennessee Board of Education.

Next to education Extended InterviewSchwin stresses that educators must aim not only to achieve all decisions, but also to the best interests of the child. This “North Star” helps her sift through unrelated political shells and stays on her agenda in the face of constant opposition.

“It’s always going to be personal and emotional. But we have to find a way to engage in hard conversations without taking them personally,” she said. .

I find it difficult to think of another current politician or education leader with such a reliable dedication to my children no matter what.

Schwin’s biggest claim to fame was the all-hands initiative of deck-on decks, designed to shift reading instructions from the awful. 3 Queuing System It teaches children to guess the words into science-based ones. At the time, Covid was furious. But for her, reading is a “target that cannot be negotiated.” In just two years, Tennessee third-year students improved by 8 percent points in their state reading ratings. With the state having just under 1 million third-graders in the state, 8 points is the big average jump for a cohort of that size.

Additionally, it was released in 2022 Naeps indicated Tennessee A slight increase All other state outcomes were rejected by changes in degree. (Rhode Island score I declined Tennessee also did well in math. This can be a side benefit of helping children to resolve word problems and written instructions.

When first appointed, Schwin turned his eyes to Carey Wright, a board member of education who pulled away from what was known as “.Mississippi Miracle“A leap to stop the show from Mississippi’s frequent dead final rankings to the only state not a tank in the 2019 NAEP Reading Test.

Wright and Schwin wrote last summer. The74’s op-ed Ask political leaders to listen to what research says about learning, particularly reading. They note that in the late 1990s, the Fed poured $9 billion into excellent research, which was largely ignored. The dedication to data-driven decisions is that Schwin wants to strengthen federal research rather than shutting it down. (Yes, I know the federal government is fishing to close the Department of Education. But if that was really the goal, why would she do the job?)

What really won my heart is a leader who can change his mind by clarifying the right evidence and the reasons for making change.

For example, in 2021, faithful to the Republican playbook, the Tennessee Legislature passed a law that obligated to hold back third-year students who fail to pass the Reading Proficiency Test. Without an obvious appetite, Schwin has admitted that it was her job to implement state law. While punishing third graders, he rose scores in several states, but Long-term impact Removing a 9 year old child from a cohort of age or friends is hardly a good thing. Although Schwinn had not fought the law, her “reading 360” initiative reduced the vast number of retained children. It opened up many routes to fourth graders, including intensive tutoring, after-school and summer reading camps, allowing families to agree to intervention during fourth graders.

Also, to help children from educational abolition, she is the only national teacher designed to draw the butts of higher education into the 21st century with current research and modern children’s drive. We have established an apprenticeship program.

Don’t worry, Schwin is far from everyone’s tea. She is a Republican. But that is difficult to convey from the whole of her actions. Her work enraged both Orthodox people on the left and right.

Ultimately, her efforts to avoid culture wars, for example, were found to be too hampered to the point of being unable to concentrate on her work. In 2023, Tennessee passed a law designed to scrub the curriculum of race and gender information. Again, Schwin said he respects state law. However, her order to the field was not to “limit” such arguments and infuriate cultural warriors on either side of the aisle. Ultimately, her efforts were swallowed up by those unproductive fights, so she quit that summer.

Did the president’s vet know what they were obsessed with? The two appointments to the federal DOE appear to be a contradiction between the terminology of wrecking balls and design build contractors. However, Schwinn doesn’t look like a woman cleaning up the North Star, so she must have been certain she could do a real job.

of course, I understand. The greatest benefit of children can use true champions. Good luck, aide.

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