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"Our junior in HS was asked to read the Hunger Games and Night. Hunger Games is written at about the 5th grade reading level and Night, while extremely important, is about 115 pages. Other things "covered" this year were selections from other texts and movie clips to supplement. Movie clips!!" So many parents have these stories. I'm one of them. @ReadSimplified makes a lot of important points here:

The @sfchronicle Editorial Board is over it. This whole editorial is 🔥, and the literacy portion is nuclear. “Nearly 60% of our 3rd graders didn’t meet state standards” for ELA. “Meanwhile, poverty-stricken red states such as Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama have surged ahead of California in childhood literacy after adopting mandatory foundational literacy teaching and training.” @mgpotente @BerrinchudaM @KJWinEducation @careads @SFParents

"The average low-income California fourth grader is a full year behind their counterpart in Mississippi." I’m glad to see Claude Goldenberg saying it plainly. @mgpotente @BerrinchudaM @DDCalifornia @meganbaci

Confessions of a veteran teacher:

In California, 72% of Black 4th graders are *BELOW BASIC* in NAEP reading. Up from 56% 10 years ago. This in a state that has DOUBLED per pupil spending in the last 10 years. We've thrown money at the problem, and this is the result. We need better reading policy NOW.

California state superintendent @TonyThurmond is not only ignoring this reading crisis, he is running for governor. Which would be the ultimate Fail Upward. @DDCalifornia @meganbaci @mgpotente @SFParents @CAParentPower @mikemalione @BerrinchudaM @minilek @contrarian4data @minilek

Guess what’s not allowed on the Medical College Admission Test? A calculator. Here’s a pic of my son’s scratch paper from his practice exam yesterday. Note: multi-digit mult & long division. Yes, it’s timed, too. Math ed peeps who deride algorithms & recommend use of calculators before children master computations actually worsen learning & widen opportunity gaps.

@MaxJordan_N @minilek @jaycaspiankang I think the “marginally eligible” aspect reflects the regression discontinuity design. They compared students just above and below the cutoff. There’s no counterfactual for students who were very eligible, and so it’s hard to make a claim about those students.

@minilek Really interesting. now worth debating the obsession with the rat race liberal parents have regarding early completion of courses, esp if the effect is concentrated only among marginally eligible girls and no boys at all. Clearly something unrelated to math. Cc @jaycaspiankang

Presentation yesterday at an NBER meeting in Cambridge, MA: a new preprint on targeted acceleration in middle school math. 1/2

bostonglobe.com/2024/10/08/met… “In 2012, Brookline High saw more Black students score as advanced on the state Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System Math test than ever before; 88 percent were Calculus Project participants… The project runs counter to a recent push to engage high schoolers in math by adding real-world relevancy and substituting classes like data science for algebra II and calculus.”

An honor to host and learn from Minister Gibb. @ehanford and I agreed that England is about 10-15 years ahead of the US in its embrace and implementation of research-based reading instruction. @AEIeducation

"Untangling dyslexia myths and misconceptions," good overview in APA Monitor. apa.org/monitor/2024/0… #dyslexia #scienceofreading

@rastokke @ToddTruitt76508 Our school is following guidance from Jo Boaler that practicing math facts is a low-value activity for classroom time but that families must do 5 minutes daily home practice (untimed). Fine with me but what about equity? And why can’t it fit in at school when it’s only 5 minutes?

Great article by parent, lawyer & math ed advocate @ToddTruitt76508. Virginia's new Standards return memorizing times tables. But, as he notes, "cognitive science-based recommendations are only effective if school systems choose to follow them." baconsrebellion.com/hey-what-happe…

Think twice before using ChatGPT for help with HW. A well designed RCT found that high schoolers solved more practice math problems correctly, but did worse on a test than students who solved the problems on their own. hechingerreport.org/kids-chatgpt-w…

1. It’s healthy to keep questioning and challenging the field to make the research relevant to teachers. 2. I want to see more Implementation Science in education and reading research.

“Every district initiative lives or dies on a principal’s desk.” - The fabulous Becky Sullivan from SCOE Uncomfortably true. And this is a great thread from principal @allardice_jamie: Why elementary principals so rarely support literacy initiatives…

We are not talking enough about this.

On a positive note I've never seen such unity before on Twitter

Literacy skills seem to fuel literacy enjoyment, rather than vice versa onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… "The best-fitting direction-of-causation model showed that skills impacted enjoyment, while the influence in the other direction was zero."

My podcast Chalk & Talk just surpassed 75,000 downloads! I'm a mathematician & I've interviewed teachers, mathematicians, psychologists, authors on (math) education - primary to calculus. 27 episodes so far & more great guests planned. Check it out! chalkandtalkpodcast.podbean.com

A much smarter, more equitable policy than Algebra for none. Assign promising students to Alg 1 pipeline and require op-out. | Dallas ISD’s Opt-Out Policy Dramatically Boosts Diversity in Its Honors Classes @The74 the74million.org/article/dallas…