Mercedes Schneider listened to Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos deride what they call “America’s failing government schools.” She writes that these two deep thinkers put the hyphen in the wrong place. To understand what has happened over the past two decades, you must realize that the schools have been victimized by failing-government policies, by policies … Continue reading Mercedes Schneider to Betsy DeVos: How the Federal Government Failed America’s Public Schools