President Trump Champions Educational Freedom — Putting Students and Parents First

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Kevin MacLeod · incompetech.com · CC BY 4.0

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The White House announced a celebration of the new school year, with President Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon hosting students, parents, and advocates to tout what the administration calls an “unparalleled record” on education policy.

The release credits the administration with expanding educational freedom, restoring parental rights, and shifting power to the states, all in what it describes as “record time.” No independent data, test scores, or enrollment figures accompany these claims — only the assertion that they are true.

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An “unparalleled record” is the kind of phrase you use precisely when there is nothing to parallel it against, and “record time” is what you say when you would rather not say what was actually accomplished. The tell is not the boasting; it is that a department with a whole apparatus for measuring learning chose to measure nothing at all. When the graders hand themselves the grade and skip showing the work, the reader is entitled to assume the work does not exist.

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