...enough experience with authentic writing which leaves them unprepared for the demands of the world, and more importantly, disengaged from school. We tell them to do boring shit that has no meaning to them and then wonder why they're absent or checked-out. It's not mysterious.

Absolutely kids need to be able to decode words first, but reading is a rounded practice that goes beyond decoding words. If the testing we do only measures decoding, that's what gets taught. We've seen this play in writing instruction which has resulted in students not having...

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“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”

—James Baldwin

when so many children living in poverty are literally malnourished, it strikes me as particularly problematic to describe them as 'word poor', as 'hungry for words', as having 'stunted vocabularies', as requiring a 'rich diet of words', or as 'linguistically impoverished'.

3. A science of writing suggests that there is a causal sequence that would lead to the acquisition of this (apparently objectively measurable) writing skill. This is not true. We learn by writing, but the ways people learn within the experience are innumerable.

'Families in the poorest communities are the least likely to obtain ESA funds. Nothing in the analysis above even remotely suggests that this program is addressing inequities in school access by students’ socioeconomic status.'brookings.edu/articles/arizo…

Turns out, Don Lemon was right. Elon Musk was just making shit up this whole time

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Federal judge grants preliminary injunction of Arkansas’s anti-CRT law, finding it unconstitutionally vague. It fails to give teachers notice of what they can and cannot teach. arkansasadvocate.com/2024/05/07/fed…

Thanks, Teachers College Press for running this special!
UConn Neag School of Education Literacy Research Association #disciplinaryliteracy
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Learning is not an error-free process; therefore, homework should be feedback, rather than grade, oriented.

“Here is a list of accurate SOR criticisms *but* SOR critics are still wrong” is a very odd contortion to stay on the SOR bandwagon

today i found out that this work has won the best early career article in the British Journal of Sociology of Education for 2023. dedicated to all teachers who have experienced hostile pressure to change their accents, especially those that are marginalised in different ways 💖

In case you missed it, check out this incredible webinar hosted by the International Literacy Educators Coalition and Jen & Hannah are here to support teachers&students.
Trusting Readers: Attending to the Affective Side of Reading Development by Hannah Schneedwind and Jennifer Scoggin
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Arizona’s 'universal' education savings account program has become a handout to the wealthy | Brookings brookings.edu/articles/arizo…

Touted as the way to give poor families the same school choice as others, this sobering study of AZ vouchers shows they have really just made private school cheaper & more attractive for wealthy families. The long-term structural impact of this social stratification on public…

It's puzzling that the many of the same folks who say higher ed prices are out of control because of too much government subsidy also insist that vouchers that subsidize K12 private schools will not inflate private tuition.

Can't imagine this ad was market tested. Imagine an alt version that shows these creative tools leaping into an iPad and then re-emerging, rather than seeing them be violently smashed into a thin screen and you might get the message Apple is trying to convey. This is a nightmare.

It couldn't be clearer that the phonics focus of educational materials making their way into schools and the associated standardized testing is preventing students from developing interest in reading. What good is decoding if you don't want to read? slate.com/culture/2024/0…