Sara Mead

That’s all she wrote, folks. Thanks again for having me here. I keep up a pretty steady stream of child care coverage and eduwonkery at my Ed Week blog and twitter feed @saramead so please check those out if you’re interested. But for now: *Economic policy debates would be a lot better if 23rd century […]

Texas’ education standards are back in the news! In 2009, the state drew national attention–and criticism–when a powerful conservative bloc on the State Board of Education pushed science standards requiring public schools to scrutinize “all sides” when teaching about evolution. (Mariah Blake wrote an excellent article for this magazine about the controversy and the colorful […]

One final thought about Mitt Romney and the war on most moms: In the same video clip referenced below, Romney also brags about increasing spending on child care assistance to help these moms of 2-year-olds go back to work. But we know that states have been cutting childcare assistance, thousands of families have lost services […]

Kudos to the Up With Chris Hayes team for unearthing this video of Mitt Romney, at a New Hampshire rally in January, lauding his record of requiring mothers of children as young as 2 to experience the “dignity of work” as a condition of receiving public benefits. So, apparently, raising children is only work if […]

Well, primary season is definitely over. In an interview with Univision on Friday evening, President Obama went after Mitt Romney on both immigration: The challenge we’ve got on immigration reform is very simple. I’ve got a majority of Democrats who are prepared to vote for it, and I’ve got no Republicans who are prepared to […]

And welcome back to Miss Sara’s Sunday School for unrepentant politics watchers. I hope everyone had a lovely Saturday. Here’s hoping the two false fire alarms that evacuated my building yesterday afternoon don’t repeat themselves this morning. Since today is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, a round-up of Titanic-oriented news and […]

It’s a beautiful day here in D.C., and time for me to get outside and enjoy the sunshine. But I’ll be back bright and early tomorrow with more. In the meantime, a few links to keep you busy: *Somehow I don’t think my high school English-teacher sister is going to be replacing A Modest Proposal […]

I’m convinced that, somewhere in the bowels of the New York Times organization, there’s a memo specifying exactly how often the Gray Lady needs to run basically the exact same story about the difficulties of affluent Manhattanites in getting their children into elite preschools. More recently, we’ve seen a new variant on similar themes: Stories […]

Despite what Dave Weigel says, the fates seem determined to drag the Ann Romney/Hilary Rosen/war on women/war on moms debate into the weekend, so I guess I might as well, too. One response to the War on Moms claims–well-made by Salon’s Irin Carmon here–is that, Mommy Wars rhetoric, aside, the Republican policy agenda actually offers […]

Welcome to Miss Sara’s Saturday School for Incorrigible Wonks (I’m guessing most of you fall on that side of the divide). Thanks much to Ed and Paul Glastris for having me here. This is a bit of a departure from my usual eduwonkery, but I trust you’ll bear with me and maybe we can all […]