I think one of the problems with the current debate is that it suggests we need reasons and evidence to ban phones in schools when actually we need reasons and evidence to let them in.

The burden of proof is all the wrong way round.

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Once again - refreshing clarity from ⁦Daniel Willingham⁩. Love how he explores results of studies - evaluating them, not just taking them at face value. ⁦Learning & the Brain⁩

This is misleading. Title IX's 'vital protections' are being weakened, not strengthened. The new regs are based not on sex at all but 'gender identity.' Meanwhile 75% of Americans simply don't buy the idea you can be a gender other than what biology says you are.

This maddens me. When schools casually demand that children access apps, tablets etc at home, they are tacitly encouraging online habits that are easy to establish and hard to break.

Schools: please think carefully before you normalise kids being online when they don’t have to

Add this to tactics like destroying works of art and blocking traffic to prevent people from getting to work. When you do things like this, whatever your cause is, I’m now against it.

On the new Title IX rule that dropped at 5am this morning:

There’s a reason this new rule was delayed again and again: the Biden administration knew that it was stretching the law beyond its breaking point. At a time when American higher education is in crisis, with a drastic

This is an AI 'deep fake,' right? With all our challenges, there's no way one of the country's most influential politicians is focusing her time and attention on 'green text people' excluded from group chats.

Right?

A critical reform we could make in ed policy and practice would be to signal to teachers in advance the knowledge domains of reading passages on state reading tests (which aren't going away). It would control for background knowledge and incentivize coherent curriculum.

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Let’s stop asking the age-old questions like “find the main idea” or “what can you infer from the text?’

These questions simply don’t build comprehension.

What does? Teaching vocabulary in depth and building and activating content knowledge.

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Seeing my name in the top 20 makes me question the entire list and its methodology. But it's nice to think my post-classroom career hasn't been a complete waste of time--mine and yours.

If you don't care about the subject you're covering in journalism, than why are you covering it?

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Sorry Moms for Liberty but I cannot support your proposal to make the US Citizenship test a high school graduation requirement.

It should be an *elementary school* graduation requirement.

A legitimate concern and why I like that idea that Serious People in Civic Education tend to dismiss--that every student should be able to pass the US Citizenship Test. There has to be a base of common knowledge to build on.

Whenever we learn that censorship has blocked something true (like the Hunter Biden laptop story), we always hear the same excuse: 'We censored it based on what we knew at the time.'

This is not a defense of censorship. In fact, it's a knock-down argument against it.

If

How was this ever *not* universally recognized?

And people wonder why I natter on about civic education.

I once visited a NYC public high school to speak with administration about a 10th grader I knew, who was failing her classes and chronically absent. They “assured” me she would graduate.

That’s “sent packing.” They had no intention of doing a thing for her.

The key phrase in this post is, 'I assigned to them the best readings known to me for the competing positions.'

There's a secret to teaching a class that airs multiple sides of challenging issues and cultivates student curiosity and discussion: You have to want to do so.