Dale Chu
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“Fourth graders who used tablets in nearly all their classes scored 14 points lower on a reading test than students who never used them. Researchers called the score gap ‘equivalent to a full grade level’ of learning.”
@HKorbey
via
@techreview
#SoR
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WATCH:
@rehemaellis
covers the science of reading on
@NBCNightlyNews
.
#SoR
#msedu
cc:
@mrsmc16
@RankinSchools
@MissDeptEd
@kymyona_burk
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In my latest for
@educationgadfly
, I review the first two episodes of
@ehanford
’s new podcast, “Sold a Story,” which homes in on the complicity of
@HeinemannPub
and four of its top authors in America’s flawed approach to teaching reading.
@MichaelPetrilli
16
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A fair warning from
@rpondiscio
for
#scienceofreading
supporters, of which I count myself a member. If we don’t place enough emphasis on background knowledge for broad reading competence, we shouldn’t be surprised if and when
#SoR
is consigned to the ashbin of ‘failed reforms.’
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“62% of Americans and 68% of students are reluctant to share their true political views... and a third of Americans say that they’re worried about losing a job or job opportunities if they express their true political views.”
@jon_rauch
via
@Peter_Wehner
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“Police were called to his house 45 times before the tragedy. His mother’s friend called the sheriff’s office, telling them ‘this might be Columbine in the making’—but they never called her back.”
@DeAngelisCorey
#WhyMeadowDied
@AndrewPollackFL
@maxeden99
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Who should
@JoeBiden
pick for the next secretary of education? In my latest for
@educationgadfly
, I make the case for one of my favorite candidates,
@SonjaSantelises
.
#IStandWithSonja
#BmoreEdchat
@MichaelPetrilli
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“We’ve poured hundreds of billions of extra dollars into education in just the last decade, and the money just sloshes around for the benefit of the education bureaucracy while the students fall further behind.”
@JonahDispatch
@thedispatch
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If every school district in America could increase the amount of instructional time (summer school, after-school, lengthen the day/year) and recruit an army of capable tutors, it still wouldn’t be a strong enough treatment to make up for the academic losses kids have experienced.
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As every
@educationgadfly
reader surely knows by now,
@SecCardona
’s team published draft regulations that would bring charter growth to a standstill. In my latest, I lament
@POTUS
@JoeBiden
's unserious approach to edu recovery.
#BackOff
@MichaelPetrilli
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The 10 Best Podcasts of 2023 via
@edockterman
Number 3: Sold a Story
“Journalist
@ehanford
, who has been raising the alarm about [the nation's reading crisis] for years, lays out how America got here in a show that plays like she's unwinding a mystery.”
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School districts across the nation have been shuttering their doors this month on short notice to provide “teacher mental health” days. In my latest for
@educationgadfly
, I look at how this troubling trend could play out.
#NoSchoolNovember
@MichaelPetrilli
10
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In my latest for
@educationgadfly
, I review
@ehanford
's latest documentary on reading, which delves deep into the importance of building knowledge and vocabulary so kids can understand the words they decode.
@apmreports
@EducatePodcast
@MichaelPetrilli
6
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In my latest for
@educationgadfly
, I review
@ehanford
’s new documentary, which keeps the momentum going on an important nat'l conversation about curriculum reform & how our nation’s children are (or aren’t) being taught to read
@apmreports
@MichaelPetrilli
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“Smartphones are basically kryptonite for learning… If kids have access to a phone, they will text. They will check their social media. They will not pay attention to the teacher or to each other.”
@JonHaidt
via
@megoliver
@analisanovak
@CBSMornings
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LISTEN:
@teachcardona
on the "ay bendito effect" via
@ElissaNadworny
: "Oftentimes when we see students dealing with things in their life through poverty, there are lowered expectations to say, ‘Ay bendito, poor thing...’ That's the worst thing we can do.”
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22
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A bracing and sobering read by
@rpondiscio
via
@TheFP
on today’s classroom controversies. The upshot: What happens in classrooms is a black box… and will likely remain so for the foreseeable future.
@AEIeducation
6
22
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“Good reading instruction isn’t boring for children. Maybe adults find parts of it boring. But this shouldn’t be about what adults want. It should be about what kids need.”
@ehanford
via
@apmreports
#SoR
#EIE22
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“You cannot use poverty as an excuse. That’s the most important lesson. It’s so important, I want to shout it from the mountaintop. [What Mississippi teaches is that] we shouldn’t be giving up on children.”
@ProfDavidDeming
via
@NickKristof
@nytopinion
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Thirty years ago, a nine-day teachers strike in Los Angeles “spread chaos” across the city. Will history repeat itself on Thursday? This potential shutdown might have been avoided with collective bargaining reform via
@educationgadfly
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WATCH: “The inconvenient fact is that we need 4 million men & women to staff America’s public school classrooms. A number that large means that they will be ordinary people—not saints, not superstars.”
@rpondiscio
via
@SenBillCassidy
@GOPHELP
@AEIeducation
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WATCH: “We have failed at our core mission. When parents send their children to our schools...there are 2 things that they should be able to expect & we’re supposed to be able to deliver. Their child should be safe & their child should learn how to read.”
@DOEChancellor
#NYCReads
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The cueing system peddled by
@HeinemannPub
@FountasPinnell
@LucyCalkins
et al continues to wreak havoc. While they can’t be disbarred for
#edu
malpractice, you can arm yourself with the science in
@ehanford
latest tour de force.
@EducatePodcast
@apmreports
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“While children from poor families often enter school at a disadvantage when it comes to language comprehension, if they’re taught how to decode they’ve just been given their best shot at catching up”
@ehanford
via
@nytopinion
#elachat
#GettingReadingRight
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“Excessive use of smartphones & social media is...damaging students’ academic performance...At this point, the question isn’t whether phones should be banned from classrooms, but why more schools haven’t done so already.”
@opinion
@TimOBrien
@TimothyBLavin
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The number of uncertified teachers is beside the point. The real question is how many of
@HoustonISD
’s 10,000+ teachers are highly effective.
#txed
#HISD
Houston ISD has 2,097 uncertified teachers out of more than 10,000 teachers for 2024-25, according to district records first provided to and reported by ABC13 KTRK.
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@Yamiche
"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law." – MLK
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Yes, it’s largely ceremonial, but still hard not to notice the states in which governors 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 issue a proclamation in support of
#SchoolChoiceWeek
.
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“Black 11th-graders [in
@SFUnified
] fall just short of the threshold for being considered proficient in 4th-grade math and well below the cut point for demonstrating 5th-grade proficiency. The situation is appalling.”
@tomloveless99
#caedu
@recallsfboe
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+1
“I still dream of the parallel universe where President Mitch Daniels is eating a bowl of soup alone at the Resolute Desk and people find that to be an outrageous sign of disrespect.”
@JonahDispatch
via
@JonahRemnant
@jdickerson
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How heavy a hand should state legislatures take WRT the nuts and bolts of curriculum & instruction? In my latest for
@educationgadfly
, I suggest that Colorado’s forceful attention to early reading is worthy of lawmakers' attention.
#edcolo
@MichaelPetrilli
5
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WATCH: “
@ProfEmilyOster
was at the vanguard at arguing for schools to open. A lot of kids got back into classrooms because of her efforts.”
@ScottGottliebMD
via
@margbrennan
@FaceTheNation
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The warning signs were in plain sight, but people kept looking the other way. Read this disquieting excerpt from the new book by
@AndrewPollackFL
and
@maxeden99
, and let's resolve never to allow such a dereliction of duty to happen again.
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“It’s hard to think of a policy more threatening to minority kids than the insistence that it’s okay for them to graduate without being able to read.”
@rickhess99
via
@thedispatch
#orleg
#orpol
#elachat
@AEIeducation
@ORSenateGOP
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“We cannot be a party that values education, while joining in the dumbing down of our political dialogue”
@SykesCharlie
via
@weeklystandard
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Hard to overstate this point: Journalists rarely delve into the minutiae of instructional practice. We need more, not less, of the in-depth focus
@ehanford
brought to bear in her outstanding podcast.
#SoR
#soldastory
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WATCH: A Virginia state board member wanted to strike a line from the state’s annual report that said learning loss was most severe among kids whose schools were closed longest. She asserted that the evidence for this was “inconclusive at best.”
@arotherham
was having none of it.
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“Groupthink married to an invincible & unreflective confidence that your side is always right led to all manner of mistakes [about shutdowns & school closings].
@ProfEmilyOster
was villainized & attacked for dissenting from the groupthink.”
@JonahDispatch
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“A half century ago, a majority of the world’s people had always been illiterate; now we are approaching 90% adult literacy. There have been large gains in girls’ education—and few forces change the world so much as the empowerment of women.”
@NickKristof
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“'If we don’t build foundational skills and knowledge simultaneously,' said
@natwexler
, warning that phonics alone won’t boost test scores, 'then the pendulum may swing away from phonics once again.'”
@KarenDSouza4
@EdSource
#caedu
@careads
@KJWinEducation
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“Men are sorely needed in America’s classrooms. As
@RichardvReeves
notes, there are more women flying U.S. military planes than there are men teaching kindergarten.”
@JonahDispatch
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Mark August 6th on your calendars: That’s when
@apmreports
will drop what will assuredly be another stellar contribution by
@ehanford
to the ongoing debate about reading instruction.
@EducatePodcast
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WATCH: “It's rare to see an intervention have a negative impact. It’s common to see [one] have no impact or very little impact… It’s rare to have a negative impact. And that’s what the research [on Reading Recovery] found.”
@ehanford
via
@KJWinEducation
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Is civics education the way out of this dark zeitgeist? In my latest for
@educationgadfly
, I weigh in on the renewed calls for addressing civic ignorance following the Capitol insurrection.
#civicsed
#sschat
#medialiteracy
@arotherham
@MichaelPetrilli
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I penned an op-ed today with
@DrJuneAtkinson
, former North Carolina State Superintendent of Public Instruction, about how states are ready to lead on
#ESSA
. But they can’t do it alone via
@educationweek
#CheckStatePlans
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“In a glorious piece of craft,
@ehanford
closes the series by having young children reading the credits. It reminds the listener what a vital exercise it is to learn to read, and that it should never be sacrificed to politics or business.”
@fiona_mccann
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TONIGHT on
@NBCNightlyNews
: Meet the skateboarding, tattooed principal who is changing his students' lives.
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WATCH: “Charter schools are public schools…I’m a supporter of any great school for our children…Our kids deserve the same opportunities that other kids get. I want all options on the table.”
@LadyTenn
via
@3onyourside
@AColeman_WREG3
#TNedu
@Memphis_Lift
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“I wish we paid more attention to history in our schools… because at the end of the day, who we are is who we were.” Allen C. Guelzo via
@JonahDispatch
@JonahRemnant
@MadisonProgram
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“The money in education follows the brick building, it doesn’t follow the child. I don’t care about the brick building. I care about the human life. We don’t get do-overs for our children.”
@WinsomeSears
via
@tunkuv
@WSJopinion
#vagov
#vaed
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“In 1970, the U.S. had a student-teacher ratio of 27 to 1; today, it’s 16 to 1. If we’d invested in raising teacher pay rather than adding teachers… median teacher pay in the U.S. today would be north of $140,000.”
@rickhess99
@AEIeducation
@AEI
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Just finished listening to the first two episodes of
@ehanford
’s new podcast and it is 🔥🔥🔥. The opening minute itself is showstopping. “Sold A Story” drops on October 20th!
@auroraworeblue
@Leegaul
@ThinkingSmith
@ProfJimmyKim
@EBLIreads
@markseidenberg
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“You have folks who are just fed up with the performative politics of the school board members. That has nothing to do with charter schools, it has nothing to do with Republicans.”
@MaggieMuir10
via
@cmaiduc
@WSJ
#SFUSD
#caedu
@CPACSF
@recallsfboe
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In my latest for
@educationgadfly
, I lament New York’s shameful attempt to blind its parents and families to the gaps and shortfalls besetting its students. Lowering the bar is the very last thing states should be doing.
@SecCardona
@MichaelPetrilli
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“In schools and classrooms, we should be seeing people make decisions based on evidence, b/c there really is no need to guess at this point. There’s no reason why we can’t teach most children to read.”
@TheFCRR
’s
@TheDrPT
via
@mandy_mclaren
@kymyona_burk
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WATCH: Betsy Julien’s students at
@Hopkins270
’s Glen Lake Elementary are “turning loneliness and isolation into child’s play.” Heartwarming story by
@SteveHartmanCBS
#Kindness101
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“Phonics alone isn’t enough to turn children into skilled readers—they also need to acquire broad knowledge & vocab. But if we don’t [provide] all children w/ the skills to decode words, most h.s. grads [won't be] proficient readers.”
@natwexler
@ehanford
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Check out
@ExcelinEd
’s new
#earlyliteracymatters
website! The interactive 50-state map on how fundamental principles of early literacy are being implemented nationwide is particularly helpful:
#edcolo
@kymyona_burk
@LevesquePat
@LeahCGarner
@JebBush
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“When districts or schools that had some of the lowest [proficiency] numbers [see] almost 100% of their kids ready & passing our third grade gate, you can’t unsee that. So now that you know it’s possible, there’s just no excuse.”
@kymyona_burk
@NickKristof
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“Among the 8 most important qualities of
@Google
’s top employees,
#STEM
expertise comes in dead last. The 7 top characteristics of success at Google are all soft skills"
@CathyNDavidson
via
@valeriestrauss
#NewEducation
@FuturesED
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“Reading outcomes for American children are a source of national shame and a root cause of many of the country’s deep-seated issues and injustices.”
@KJWinEducation
via
@The74
@NAACP
@DerrickNAACP
@ChildDefender
@All4Ed
@NatUrbanLeague
@NCTQ
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13
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WATCH: "He told me to walk in my greatness.”
@imeredwilliams
via
@JimAxelrod
@CBSEveningNews
#PHLed
@CenterBlackEd
@selmekki
@NorahODonnell
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“Any school that doesn't obsess about the quality of instruction is like a restaurant that isn't obsessed with the quality of food.”
@dougmccurry2
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WATCH: “Mississippi proved that you can be poor, you can be Black, you can be Hispanic—you can be all of those things—and you can still be taught how to read.”
@kymyona_burk
via
@jayobtv
@ABCNewsLive
#SoR
@arthurjonesii
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“Only about half of 3rd graders perform at grade level on state assessments. It is even lower for poor & minority students. This is both horrific & unnecessary. Studies show that ‘virtually every student could be reading on level by the end of 1st grade.’”
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“The cueing method is a bad way to teach any child to read. But it is especially wrong for children of color and those from low-income families.”
@drgoffney
@SonjaSantelises
and
@principallearns
via
@K12DiveNews
#SoR
#reading
@chiefsforchange
@ehanford
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Kids are already back in school in much of the country, thanks in part to red states and
@GOP
governors. In my latest for
@educationgadfly
, I examine the question of how to engender similar movement in deep blue states with strong unions.
@MichaelPetrilli
3
15
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The latest from
@ehanford
is out. This quote from
@missypurcell1
painfully captures the sentiments of countless teachers and former teachers.
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“If half the kids can’t read without paying for outside tutors, you don’t have an intervention problem, you have a core instruction problem.”
@KJWinEducation
via
@KarenDSouza4
@EdSource
#caedu
#SoR
#structuredliteracy
1
16
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Looking forward to participating in
#EdFest21
this week! Co-hosted by
@ALASEDU
&
@NABSE_org
, I’m speaking on a panel called “Zipcodes & Equity: Funding Matters” w/
@All4Ed
’s
@pdclovell
&
@EdProgress
’s Lisette Partelow. Register here if you want to join us:
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“I’m never, ever going to blame teachers b/c I was one... But, now that we do have the opportunity… We now know better. So now we just really have to get everyone to want to do better.”
@missypurcell1
via
@MeghnaWBUR
@OnPointRadio
@ehanford
@basdjacksilva
4
6
36
My latest for
@educationgadfly
argues that
#openschools
are good for social stability & cohesion, all the more important given polarization trends as described by
@FiveThirtyEight
’s
@maggiekb1
&
@ameliatd
in their insightful new analysis.
@MichaelPetrilli
7
14
36
Coast to coast, there’s been encouraging progress in advancing K-3 reading policy via
@ExcelinEd
’s
@kymyona_burk
#PathForwardSummit
#SoR
cc:
@HuntK12Ed
@Hunt_Institute
3
8
37
A follow up to
@ehanford
’s hard-hitting Hard Words? Yes please! (Mark August 22nd on your calendar.)
@apmreports
1
14
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“For a long time no one really knew how people learn[ed] to [read]. But now we know. Hopefully the [reading] war is finally coming to an end, as more people understand [the] scientific research about reading and how it works.”
@ehanford
via
@WhitebdAdvisor
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Choice proponents risk making a tactical error if they allow choice to become a brand of one party rather than a 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘦 deemed worthy of protection by both.
Educational choice is the way to diffuse the culture war, not inflame it. Choice lets everyone win. While I respect the authors & know they support choice, this is not the way to get it done imo. My Northstar is choice for all regardless of politics, culture or anything else.
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“Mississippi has shown that even if you don’t solve child poverty, even if you don’t solve racism, then you can still get kids reading by the end of third grade.”
@NickKristof
via
@MichelMcQMartin
#SoR
2
13
36
Great to see
@Rouhanifard
and
@DanWeisbergTNTP
among others on
@ericadamsfornyc
’s education transition team. Their experience and expertise will be needed to help the mayor-elect get the city’s schools back on track.
@cveiga
@ChalkbeatNY
2
4
36
“The most important trend in the world may be the revolution in child mortality, the enormous decline in global poverty, and the vast increase in literacy that many people seem unaware of...”
@NickKristof
via
@nytopinion
2
13
34
“I hunger for someone to take responsibility for the many for whom it’s too late, those lifelong floundering readers whom Jack Fletcher calls ‘instructional casualties,’ who did not receive the ‘needed instruction early in development.’”
@kendrahurleynyc
2
9
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“We’re going to start using a proven, phonics-based literacy curriculum that’s proven to help children read.”
@NYCMayor
via
@the_zim
@yoavgonen
@AGZimmerman
@JeannineKiely
@ruth_genn
@EmilyHellstrom1
@aliazcuy
@NaomiPenaNYC
@AFCNewYork
@JumaaneWilliams
2
5
36
My latest for
@educationgadfly
: Schools face a double whammy this fall: illiteracy and illiberalism
@MichaelPetrilli
5
11
35
“Millions of blacks are relegated to some of the worst-performing schools… In [many] cities, most black students cannot read or do math at grade level. Standardized tests aren’t causing these disparities, just revealing them.”
@jasonrileywsj
#AssessmentHQ
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9
34
“Working families should not be forced to pay taxes to fund a public-school system that is not providing full-time public school, and pay for the cost of (additional) school or child-care on top of it through no fault of their own.”
@JoeBorelliNYC
@nypost
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Just finished watching
@levarburton
’s
@RightToReadFilm
, which offers practical solutions to the nation’s reading crisis. Watch the film for free between now and this Thursday, March 9th:
#TheRighttoRead
@KJWinEducation
@FulcrumLiteracy
@J_E_Mackenzie
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6
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To wit, per
@rpondiscio
: "At $14.99 per book, you could buy 10 copies [of 'Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons'] for every Title I elementary school for less than $3M—not even a rounding error on the $120B schools [received] from Uncle Sam..."
Teaching kids to read could be done very cheaply, and if we focused on that, even at the expense of other skills, we would be better off.
The amount of money wasted in education is astounding.
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“What Florida and Mississippi have in common is a long-term commitment to eradicating illiteracy and the willingness to strengthen their policies and implementation efforts to achieve it.”
@kymyona_burk
via
@ExcelinEd
#SoR
#KnowBetterDoBetter
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14
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“I’m thrilled that ‘Sold a Story’ has had the impact that it has, but the fact that it hasn’t yet moved the needle for my own kids school is really disappointing.”
@Leegaul
via
@alexanderrusso
@thegrade_
#SoR
@ehanford
0
8
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“If ever there were a school year when teachers, policymakers and parents need as much data as they can get to fully understand what is going on with education for the next generation, this is the year.”
@Suntimes
#AssessmentHQ
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9
34
Ed officials in California are playing politics w/ test score data from exams taken by students last spring. In my latest for
@educationgadfly
, I examine their bad behavior, and how the feds have made matters worse by turning a blind eye.
@MichaelPetrilli
3
12
33
“Dems have 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮. Right now, the Biden Administration is trying to curtail charter school growth. This is an odd position for an Administration that says it wants to ‘center’ Black & Hispanic Americans.”
@arotherham
#BackOff
3
6
33
The most dangerous anti-charter bill in Colorado’s history went down in flames today. Hats off to
@ReadyColo
,
@COCharterSchool
, and all of the champions who came out today on behalf of our children and families.
#edcolo
#copolitics
#coleg
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The principle of school transparency has undeniable appeal, yet we can’t avoid asking about the motives behind these efforts. In my latest for
@educationgadfly
, I interrogate the theory of action behind the burgeoning transparency trend.
@MichaelPetrilli
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