Tag: Dintersmith

The consent of the tested and punished, part 1: Florida tells Ted Dintersmith, “Educating children is like fixing a car.”

You’ve heard me write and talk quite a bit about Ted Dintersmith, an education activist and philanthropist, whose perceptions and obsessions overlap substantially (but not completely) with mine. I have particular fondness for Ted because we are in lockstep in how we see the toxic state-level educational experience imposed by the toxic Florida state government. Ted’s new book, “What School…

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