Will Dennison

I aspire to charitable readings, polite disagreement, and the avoidance of social media poisoning.

[Will Dennison @WillDennison10]

@dilanesper We can all agree on this. https://t.co/qseCazEpaS

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

if you read the nhj essay against the grain, a classic "education reformer" agenda emerges from it, teachers and administrators seem to face no real pressure to produce objective or testable results, the discipline system seems to structurally disadvantage well-behaved kids...

[Will Dennison @WillDennison10]

@ASFleischman After a few years of fully progressive governance, and the rims are lowered to 4 feet, you’ll dunk just like everyone else.

[Will Dennison @WillDennison10]

@ahscarymunsters @dilanesper @EWess92 Thanks!

[Will Dennison @WillDennison10]

@Tyler_A_Harper It’s good she wrote it but I don’t think it was honest. The premise that these failures are traceable to actual underfunding is false. And NHJ consistently veers away from facing up to the role of the teachers’ unions’ in the multigenerational failures she describes.

[Will Dennison @WillDennison10]

@ahscarymunsters @dilanesper @EWess92 1. Which Chetty articles do you recommend?
2. Is there any evidence that Mississippi achieved its massive turnaround in low income/black student achievement by changing “segregation”?

[Will Dennison @WillDennison10]

@dilanesper @EWess92 Right. And, as one would expect, NHJ resolves the cognitive dissonance by … blaming “segregation,” racism, and (in the highest spending large school district in the US, and, I suspect, the world) underfunding.

[Will Dennison @WillDennison10]

@ATabarrok He really should be a senator.

[Will Dennison @WillDennison10]

@dilanesper And Jumbo Elliot at Villanova was recruiting Irish runners before that.

[Will Dennison @WillDennison10]

@eva_kurilova “Woof woof woof, E.F. Hutton.”

[Will Dennison @WillDennison10]

@Tyler_A_Harper YMMV, but while both are bad, I think the Woke Racists have done far more damage over the last generation or two. The equity-speak racism, the public money and trust wasted on posturing ed-school fads, the opportunity costs imposed on so many kids … it’s just so dispiriting.

[Will Dennison @WillDennison10]

@anOrdoLiberal @cafreiman Any minimum amount to affected estates? Any maximum amounts kids can withdraw for first house or “marriage” (which I assume means more than a kick ass reception)?

[Will Dennison @WillDennison10]

@anOrdoLiberal @cafreiman If the argument is that people who didn’t personally create the wealth at issue are likely to put it to unproductive ends, would you have the same concern about handing that wealth over to govt bureaucrats who are even more disconnected from the wealth creation than heirs.

[Will Dennison @WillDennison10]

@kevinbaum013 @dilanesper If someone didn’t pay the ticket, would you be ok with arresting them then?

[Will Dennison @WillDennison10]

@thomaschattwill Manages to be even more racist than the Heritage Americans.

[Will Dennison @WillDennison10]

@neetu_arnold @olivertraldi She’s referring to this:

[Will Dennison @WillDennison10]

@jbhenneman Let me tell you about what was widespread about Taft …🛁

[Will Dennison @WillDennison10]

@rwlesq @dilanesper How might that play out in your view? This specific issue here is women’s prison. So putting aside inmate X’s ontological identity, but knowing that X went through male puberty, which prison should house inmate X and why?

[Will Dennison @WillDennison10]

@dilanesper As folks are pointing out, TWAW is false. More than that, the life of the law is experience, not logic, and experience shows that TWAW isn’t workable as a basis for government policies.

[Will Dennison @WillDennison10]

@golgfrombism @dilanesper Isn’t this press release sufficient to show the factual predicate in your tweet is wrong? https://t.co/JtoZt74cAA