A casual observer of education policy might well have scanned headlines over the last few years and concluded that America’s schools had been swept up in this era’s political polarization. The most covered stories—COVID recriminations, student debt cancellation, attempts to ban critical race theory, renaming schools—seem to come straight from today’s culture wars.
Andy Smarick is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He writes regularly for his Substack “Governing Right.”
