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read this and try not to panic: ages 17–25 now have the LOWEST critical thinking scores ever recorded. MIT calls it “cognitive atrophy.” Harvard found that AI users scored lowest in creativity. 67% of students say AI is hurting their ability to think. Many admit they know it’s happening, but they can’t stop. a student said it on NPR: "you don't need to use your brain." GPS shrank the brain region for navigation. AI is shrinking the one for reasoning. adults lose skills to AI. children never build them at all. we are the last generation that was forced to think without AI. this article will disturb you. read it anyway.

This was 44 years ago and the only tech for the singer was a microphone and a human voice… It was another time and it was another place.

@FixingEducation So Much deeper

Global Teacher Shortage Alert: The United Nations says the world will need 44 million more primary and secondary teachers by 2030. Fewer people are entering the profession. More are leaving. Is raising salaries alone enough to fix this…or is the problem deeper?

@JamesAFurey Agree

The best companies I've worked for have held to the Danny Meyers philosophy that leadership should take care of its employees as a first priority--even over customers. If you take care of your staff, they will take care of the product and the customers. Unfortunately, there isn't a school I've worked for that does anything remotely like this. Instead, the parents and students are put first and the staff just has to deal with it. It's what makes so many schools so toxic.

@educator4ever36 This is true. I teach the kids that "passed" algebra1 and cannot do 2x + 3x.

This is a great article about how our students have no math skills yet get a diploma. Most students take (and fail) and Algebra 1 EOC in 9th grade. The teacher pads the grade so the child passes the class anyway. Many student never gave up take another Math EOC so they pass every math class in high school but know absolutely nothing.

@Jordan_C_Adams except the people who are in charge of deciding what is "good teaching" are warped in the head. they think discovery learning, group testing, SEL, etc.... are the way to go....

Merit-based pay for teachers is how you attract, reward, and retain the best-of-the-best in k-12 education.

@educator4ever36 yep

How many teachers have students currently failing that you know will be passing your class anyway?

@sage_stage My school requires this too,

My old school is assigning teachers a list of students in danger of failing. The teacher is then required to touch base with the parents and all of the teachers that student is failing for to try and correct the problem.

I find it mind boggling how we generally expect students to grow one grade level per year, yet we put students who are 3-4 (and even more) grade levels behind and expect them to master grade level standards. We are asking of them more growth than we would a gifted student. This madness has to end.

@ericswalwell @BillMelugin_ Bro, you should definitely fight those “false allegations”, especially all the videos of you doing weird shit with hookers

A 20-something kid with a cell phone camera just cut the national budget deficit by exposing hundreds of billions in fraud. Turns out we didn’t need more taxation. Only enforcement of our laws.

Most people don't hate math. They hate what math feels like when their foundation is full of holes.

@teachthemx3 Good to know Thanks for sharing all your stuff I’m in tx too and it feels like we are at the same school many times And it’s both good and bad to know it’s not just my school I’m not crazy it’s really this bad! But oh crsp it’s this bad every where… 😳

@IremoveFollowrs An old post of mine is viral on IG right now, and she was familiar with the situation I posted about.

Yesterday, after school, my DI called me into her office. For context, the director of instruction is over staff and academics. She reports directly to the principal. DI: Is this you? (holding up her phone with my X account on the screen) Me: Yes DI: Do you hate your job? Me: I hate the system we call education. DI: Me too. Don't take the coordinator position. It would be like staying on the Titanic while it's sinking. (I was offered the district behavior coordinator position.) Me: I'm going to put this on X. DI: Tell them I said admin knows the ship is sinking. We can't stop it either.

My district requires a gradebook update once a week. But that does not happen with lots of teachers. My son often does not have any grades at all in a class for weeks. And some test results take weeks to post and we do not know until late in the cycle that he did not do well on something.

@IremoveFollowrs @FixingEducation The districts I've worked for require grades be updated every two or three weeks.

If you just now discovered your child is failing at the end of the quarter or semester, it is likely not the teacher's failure…it is a failure on your part as a parent.

@diceboxman @FixingEducation Yes but if it takes 3 weeks to get your test results, how can you correct your misunderstandings? Especially in math.

@IremoveFollowrs @FixingEducation They have to be done every 6 weeks?

It is actually pretty surreal how the most consequential US response to Islamism after 9/11 was to facilitate an explosion in Muslim immigration to this country and then to create a term ("Islamophobia") that made it socially unacceptable to criticize it.