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Betsy DeVos and the politics of fear: A not-so-fond farewell to Trump's education secretary

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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos&nbsp;attends an event hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump with students, teachers and administrators about how to safely re-open schools during the novel coronavirus pandemic in the East Room at the White House July 07, 2020 in Washington, DC.--Even Betsy DeVos — one of the longest-serving of Donald Trump's revolving-door cabinet secretaries — finally reached what she called an "" with the former president's open call for violent insurrection, resigning slightly before he left office. Amid&nbsp;the chaotic Trump administration, DeVos was in many ways the perfect choice for education secretary. She showed an astounding lack of knowledge about public education. She seemed at best uninterested and at worst downright hostile to America's public schools.DeVos' tenure leaves us with unanswered questions: How is it possible that the leader of the Education Department could be so indifferent to public education itself? Why wouldn't she learn the basics about her own department?Scholars and pundits have offered answers. For one thing, DeVos did not care about her department because she thought her department should not exist. Like conservatives ever since the Reagan administration, DeVos yearned to dismantle her own department from within. DeVos, in this analysis, was never the guardian of public education but rather the "."That explanation is true and important. For decades, conservative leaders have threatened to eliminate the Education Department entirely. Even when&nbsp;&nbsp;back in 2011, he remembered that one of them was Education.As&nbsp;."Adam Laats is a professor of education and history at Binghamton University. He is the author of the award-winning "" (2015) and "" (2018). His commentaries about conservatism and education have been published in Chronicle of Higher Education, Education Week and the Washington Post.MORE FROM

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos&nbsp;attends an event hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump with students, teachers and administrators about how to safely re-open schools during the novel coronavirus pandemic in the East Room at the White House July 07, 2020 in Washington, DC.--Even Betsy DeVos — one of the longest-serving of Donald Trump's revolving-door cabinet secretaries — finally reached what she called an "" with the former president's open call for violent insurrection, resigning slightly before he left office. Amid&nbsp;the chaotic Trump administration, DeVos was in many ways the...

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