Andrew Rice
@riceid
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Feature writer, New York Magazine. Author of The Year That Broke America. Retweets = procrastination. DMs open. [email protected]
Joined April 2009
With his sentencing in New York now postponed indefinitely, it's safe to say the attempt to prosecute Donald Trump has come to an end. I've collected all my @NYMag stories on Trump's trials in one place. You can find the archive here
andrewrice.net
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The irony, as the story notes, is that the use of excerpts is often said to be driven by the imperative to increase test scores. Yet test scores are plummeting and the curriculum remains.
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Instead of reading whole books, high school students today are often given “excerpts from novels,” then asked to answer questions. “Students typically access the content online, often using school-issued laptops.” @DanaGoldstein on our reading dystopia
nytimes.com
When teachers do assign whole books, they often choose from a stagnant list of classics.
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It's sadly become consensus on right and left that creating good public schools to lift up poor kids is impossible
theatlantic.com
Progressives used to view schools as engines of social mobility. Now they seem resigned to their failure.
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N.J. Attorney General on mailer being sent to his friends and neighbors in Montclair.
To whoever wasted money to send this fun mailer out about me, let me help you: I’m not running for office, I’m not backing down, and your attacks don’t scare me. I fight corruption because it’s the right thing to do. Sorry I’m not sorry. Also, my kid could do a better design.
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No doubt genetics and family income are dominant factors in determining student outcomes. But critics who want to write off *all* policy change as futile remind me of Ned Flanders’ beatnik parents: “We’ve tried nothin’, and we’re all out of ideas.”
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Here’s Vlad Kogan
educationnext.org
The cultural critic’s absolutist appraisal ignores clear evidence of progress
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Good columns by @jonathanchait and @vkoganpolisci on the left’s efforts to debunk the “southern surge” in K-12 test scores. Here’s Chait:
theatlantic.com
Progressives used to view schools as engines of social mobility. Now they seem resigned to their failure.
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Seems plausible, I'll take one copy please
Coming April 2026... WHERE THE MUSIC HAD TO GO, a captivating new dual biography of two titans of music, as @jimwindolf dives into the surprisingly supportive, occasionally rivalrous, always fertile relationship between Bob Dylan and the Beatles https://t.co/k6lfMnadud
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This is a great piece with some mind-boggling statistics. - At Brown and Harvard, more than 20% of undergraduates are registered as disabled - At Amherst: more than 30 percent - At Stanford: nearly 40 percent Soon, many of these schools "may have more students receiving
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Hedge fund titan. Movie character. Art collector. Sports team owner. And possibly soon, casino boss. Steve Cohen is one step closer to the new title after getting a preliminary nod from the New York State Gaming Commission
bloomberg.com
Hedge fund titan. Movie character. Art collector. Sports team owner. And possibly soon, casino boss.
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Featuring my favorite detail from the Metropolitan Park casino complex bid: they consulted an internationally renowned feng shui expert who determined the casino’s bat 🦇 shape was “auspicious,” because bats symbolize “good fortune, happiness, joy and longevity.”
Hedge fund titan. Movie character. Art collector. Sports team owner. And possibly soon, casino boss. Steve Cohen is one step closer to the new title after getting a preliminary nod from the New York State Gaming Commission
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Big news in my neighborhood
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For this issue of @NYMag, I wandered around Bayonne with Arki Busson, the flashy French financier who is turning a Jersey brownfield into a Hollywood-style studio complex. Come for the gossip, stay for the explanation of film & TV tax incentives!
curbed.com
A long-abandoned brownfield will soon house the largest film studio in the region.
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Have Politics Hijacked Education Policy? In a new book, @vkoganpolisci argues that school boards short-change students & should be more accountable for learning. We discuss, at @educationweek.
edweek.org
School boards should be held more accountable to student learning, says this scholar.
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Here’s my profile of Steve Cohen from 2023, when his casino plan seemed like a longshot
nymag.com
The billionaire hedge-funder is used to getting what he wants. His time as Mets owner and casino bidder is a whole different ballgame.
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As if he wasn’t motivated before, Steve Cohen will have every incentive to try to buy a World Series now that he can anticipate billions in revenue from his new gambling entertainment complex, with the Mets playing a summer residency 81 days a year.
Noah Shachtman has reported on cutthroat competition to win the right to build a casino in New York City and finds that Mets owner Steve Cohen beat perhaps the longest odds — and a few politicians along the way — to win.
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Noah Shachtman has reported on cutthroat competition to win the right to build a casino in New York City and finds that Mets owner Steve Cohen beat perhaps the longest odds — and a few politicians along the way — to win.
nymag.com
Steve Cohen wanted something even bigger than the Mets. How he beat Jay-Z, politicians, and the odds to get it.
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Late to @riceid's great piece on falling school standards in Blue America. "In many liberal communities, talking of test scores—even the word achievement—has come to sound right-coded. 'The very places that purport to care most about equity have done worst in terms of catch-up.'”
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Hmm. If academic rigor is what's causing the spike in ADHD, depression & anxiety in young Americans, shouldn't these trends have reversed over the past decade of lax standards & grade inflation? https://t.co/6FZsqDL2BE
nytimes.com
From A.D.H.D. to anxiety, disorders have risen as the expectations of childhood have changed.
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