Even those who aren’t surprised by the simple fact of Donald Trump’s assault on America’s universities must be shocked by the full frontal magnitude of it all, belated attempts to walk back parts of it, notwithstanding. (Harvard is putting up a courageous, clever, and effective defense.)
Trying? They succeeded, that’s why we’re here now. You wanna know what the state of education is now? An entire generation that went to high school through No Child Left Behind is now teaching kids. Many of them do not have a Masters in education, because hiring standards have needed to be lowered in many districts just to get any teachers at all. Hell for some schools, I’ve heard of recent exceptional high school graduates getting asked to come back and teach the classes they just finished.
Education in America died decades ago. The Trump administration is just burying the body.