maternity leave and tax credits for child-care costs among others.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has picked Williamson M. Evers a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and Gerard Robinson a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute to be on his presidential transition team for education according to multiple sources.
Trumps Growing Interest in Education
Evers has an extensive background in academic standards. He was appointed by two former California governors Pete Wilson and Arnold Schwarzenegger to serve on two separate standards commissions.
And hes been a big critic of the Common Core State Standards. In a 2015 op-ed for Education Week for example Evers said advocates of the common core were subverting a key aspect of the American civic system:
The common cores rules and its curriculum guidance are the governing rules of a cartel. The common cores promoters and their federal facilitators wanted a cartel that would override competitive federalism and shut down the curriculum alternatives that federalism would allow. The common cores promoters are endeavoring to suppress competitive federalism.
Robinson resigned as the Florida chief four years ago after a difficult year in office. He left the job not long after a controversy surrounding a precipitous drop in proficiency rates on the state writing exam the state board responded by lowering the pass
score on the test.
At AEI Robinson focuses on school choice regulatory issues and the role of for-profit institutions in education among other topics. In an August op-ed for U.S. News & World Report Robinson argued for a new set of priorities to drive education including entrepreneurship:
Entrepreneurship is the antithesis of the bureaucratic (education) model that has been a hallmark of the one best system for more than 100 years.
The time is ripe for more entrepreneurial ways to deliver teaching and learning in pre-K-20 education. This endeavor however requires a herculean shift in values.
An entrepreneurial approach sees a problem as an opportunity; a bureaucratic approach sees an opportunity as a problem.
