Linda McMahon will “empower the next Generation of American Students and Workers, and make America Number One in Education in the World,” Donald Trump recently effused about his nominee for secretary of education. Although Trump himself has promised to dismantle the Department of Education, not much is known about the education positions of McMahon, whose claim to fame is having presided over the WWE—World Wrestling Entertainment. Yet within the contours of the emerging Trump administration a clear vision for the nation’s schools is emerging, and it looks a lot like the past.
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