Don’t miss this conference! Should be an amazing day!

This thread is worth a read.

1/7 Time for my periodic reminder about one of the most important educational research findings of the 20th century: the Eight-Year Study.
Back in the 1930s, 30 high schools around the U.S. turned traditional practice on its head, especially for college-bound students...

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Do You Get Déjà Vu When SoR’s With You?

We may think the science of reading is special. But it’s all reused. To be clear, I buy the SoR evidence via National Reading Panel etc; the thread's goal is not to throw shade on the research, but to remind us we’ve been here before.

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The present assault on our public education system has already done significant harm, and threatens much worse.

But it might also force us, as we defend public schools, to lean more meaningfully into what 'public' really means.

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This is my son! Hitting Challenger puts him in the top .02 percent of all League of Legends players. Congrats, Luke!

Can we get 500 retweets on this? This is one hell of an ad from the Democrat running for US Senate in North Dakota. The question is whether people will watch it and share it.

Amazing thread. Eye opening.

I spent my morning reading transcripts of interviews with teachers -- about their working conditions.

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“We Can Draw and Think About It Ourselves”: Putting Culture and Race in Phonics Reading Research
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Very important read for all educators grappling with SoR dogma. Read the whole thing.

Amazing takedown of school voucher programs.

Worth a read.

This is worth watching. Every word.

holy shit i am crying

Shaker Heights, a high school in Ohio, sorted students by ability level, and the top classes always had more White students. In the pandemic, it unraveled this “tracking.” wapo.st/447hsGN

I actually read all 216 pages of Florida's new state social studies standards, and the enslaved-people-benefitting-from-slavery is not even the worst part. They basically created a K-12 course in Caucasian Race Theory

Here's the top 10 problems I found:

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