I've joked about this before, but maybe it's time to think about bringing back the (really) old Democratic idea of "sortition," or choosing elected officials by some kind of lottery. The idea being that maybe the best candidate is someone who doesn't actually want the job. Considering how many people now in Congress who don't seem to have two brain cells to rub together, maybe it's not such a bad idea? <ducks>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

@doot

I'm a #journalist and I love it here and know many colleagues who feel the same

Been writing about it at Popula (https://popula.com/2022/12/12/mastodon-is-fun/) and The Nation @thenation (https://www.thenation.com/article/society/press-freedom-twitter/)

#journalism #twitter #twitterexodus

https://hechingerreport.org/inside-the-new-middle-school-math-crisis/

The article is bigger in focus, but the intro focuses on publicly tracking students performance week to week in a middle school math class.

That sounds awful to me and I have trouble believing it's effective long term.