Trying to figure out Eduwonk

So back to thinking about the world of education policy... Policy blog Eduwonk is an encyclopedic resource, but reading a little about Andrew Rotherman helped sort out why it feels a little bit off to me. Specifically, it appears that Rotherman has never been a public school teacher. I will correct myself if I am wrong about this, but I feel this is the problem with almost everything I read about education. Teachers are always remote figures, never authoritative voices. And so it goes that conversations about school reform and school policy never become more than an annoying buzz in the teachers ear while they go about the everyday work of making their school year make sense to their students and themselves.