Marc Porter Magee
I live in Virginia with @kportermagee, our 3 adorable kids & 3 scruffy dogs. Personal account.
Work: CEO & founder of 50CAN.
- It’s @50can.org’s 15th anniversary. To celebrate the anniversary, we asked 29 people to share their stories and turned it into an oral history of our first 15 years. 50can.org/wp-content/u...
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- Can progressivism survive when it’s wrapped in a pessimistic wrapper? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
- “Democrats are divided and flummoxed over what to do.” t.co/KLMYla6gCn
- Cash alone fails a big test. Back to education programs and reforms? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
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- Do progressive groups want to look successful more than they want to be successful? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
- Reposted by Marc Porter MageeThis provocative, data-infused essay by James Wyckoff — edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1197 — serves as a reminder that fully understanding the declines in student achievement requires us to look well before the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Why did Democrats give up on learning as a priority? How do they get it back? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/u...
- For the first time in its history, DFER embraces private school choice in its new policy agenda. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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- “Near the end of the argument, Justice Kavanaugh thanked the school board’s lawyer, Alan E. Schoenfeld, suggesting he had done what he could with hopeless material.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
- Biden believed the best way to stop Trump was to give every Democratic interest group a reason to be loyal. It backfired. “How did Democrats back themselves into this corner? Partly they’re pandering to pro-tariff constituencies (i.e., unions, once reliable Democratic allies).”
- When you give a child a laptop and just turn them loose, amazing things happen Just kidding, it’s a complete bust voxdev.org/topic/educat...
- Why is the Democrats’ response to Trump’s tariffs so muddled? Because Biden left them without a clear stance on free trade. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
- What’s the future of NAEP? www.the74million.org/article/lind...
- How tilted to the left are the staff at universities? New data from VR Scores. vrscores.org/data-visuali...
- The change in US 4th grade math skills by content area on the NAEP What's going on with geometry? zarekdrozda.substack.com/p/beyond-the...
- Which selective colleges have the most balance between liberal & conservative students? Answer: Washington & Lee, Notre Dame, University of Miami, Boston College and Wake Forest. fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...
- The turmoil at the Ivies continues www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
- “after suffering their biggest defeat in decades, Democrats are deeply fractured, rudderless, and struggling to figure out at the most basic level what their message and strategy should be” www.politico.com/news/magazin...
- This seems like a pretty big finding to understand why inequality in education is increasing: When high-performing students got broadband in their homes, they learned more. When low-performing students got broadband in their homes, they learned
- Remembering Kevin Drum www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
- “Progressive groups that coalesced around trauma turned the trauma inward. Activists proclaimed unity and preached collective action, but they found themselves divided along lines of identity or fracturing over conflicts that bewildered outsiders” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/m...
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- How Covid changed everything (in charts) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Reposted by Marc Porter MageeWhelp ed research orgs had mass lay-offs yesterday Mathematica: www.linkedin.com/posts/mathem... MDRC: www.linkedin.com/posts/mdrc_t... NORC: www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-ga... RTI: www.linkedin.com/posts/no%C3%... Westat: www.linkedin.com/posts/westat... WestEd: www.linkedin.com/posts/amyhre...
- The Trump Administration withdrew $400 million in federal funds to Columbia, arguing they have failed to protect their Jewish students. Here is the list of other schools they are looking at: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/u...
- Seems like the first of many reversals as Dems reposition for 2028 www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
- Where do nonprofits get their money?
- Are Southerners losing their Southern accent? “Our results make clear that, among White speakers from Georgia, the phonological vowel system has reorganized itself over the last fifty years.” www.cambridge.org/core/service...
- The peak for talking about the achievement gap was 2011. (The actual achievement gap however keeps increasing.)
- Americans are becoming more conservative on transgender issues www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
- CHART OF THE DAY "Household Income Distribution within 8 School Types" From #EdOppportunityExplorer by 50CAN, drawing on data from a survey of 20,000 US parents 50can.org/education-op...
- Who gets tutoring in the US?
- “On every single issue that mattered to them, progressives now find themselves in a weaker position than before.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
- We have a new poll out today on Virginian voters’ views on education. Here are the highlights. Click the link for the full report. 50can.org/publication/...
- “The NAEP results make clear the failure of American schools to rebound from Covid. And despite the infusion of over $180 billion in federal money to rescue American schools since the pandemic, there is no evidence of a turnaround” www.educationnext.org/low-performi...
- New Gallup survey: satisfaction with the quality of public education in US is at record low news.gallup.com/poll/656114/...
- “The Democratic Party, at least in theory, is an organization dedicated to winning political power through elected office, though this might seem hard to believe on the evidence provided by its official proceedings” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
- Race, ethnicity and school type on the 2024 NAEP
- 2% of Black 8th graders in Milwaukee are proficient in math on the 2024 NAEP
- How did states do on the 2024 #NAEP when adjusting for demographics? Urban Institute did the calculations. When rank ordered you end up with Mississippi, Louisiana and Massachusetts at the top. Alaska, Oregon and West Virginia at the bottom. t.co/RGJYn0h0Fr
