DeVos, kids, tests: What readers clicked on the most in the last decade - The Washington Post

DeVos, kids, tests: What readers clicked on the most in the last decade - The Washington Post

DeVos, kids, tests: What readers clicked on the most in the last decade

Betsy DeVos. Early-childhood education. Kids. Equity. Standardized tests. Teachers. Did I mention DeVos?

These are some of the topics that drew the most readers to The Answer Sheet over the past decade.

I’ve been authoring The Answer Sheet as a continuing experiment in telling stories about education, of which I take an expansive view. Regular readers know that I write some of the posts — sometimes news, sometimes analysis — and I publish the work of other people, often teachers who have revelatory observations about school and how America treats its children. I don’t always agree with the authors I publish, but I do respect their work and believe that what I present reflects important realities in today’s education world.

When this project started, it was called a blog; now it is known at The Washington Post as a “vertical.” I’ve always looked at it as something more of an online magazine that publishes different forms of storytelling. Here are the most popular posts on The Answer Sheet for the last decade. Following that list are the most popular posts of 2019

The most-read may surprise you. It surprised me.

Note: There are several ties because the numbers were remarkably close. When there were ties, I did not jump over any numbers in the list, as in listing a tie between two posts for the top spot and then jumping to 3. This gave me the opportunity to include more great pieces.

The most read posts in the last decade:

1) When a first-grader’s wrong answer was better than the right one — Jan. 3, 2018

When a first-grader’s wrong answer was better than the right one

These are a few tweets that stand all on their own for entertainment value from a teacher of young children.

2) Six astonishing things Betsy DeVos said — and refused to say — at her confirmation hearing — Jan 18, 2017

Six astonishing things Betsy DeVos said — and refused to say — at her confirmation hearing

At her contentious confirmation hearing as President Trump’s nominee to be education secretary, DeVos was asked by Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) about an important education debate involving how student progress should be measured. The query essentially rendered her speechless as she appeared CONTINUE READING: DeVos, kids, tests: What readers clicked on the most in the last decade - The Washington Post