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@bryanrbeal For example, Cleveland's Catholic schools barely beat the Ohio average for 3rd grade, foundational reading.
Yet Steubenville public schools completely tromp far wealthier schools across the state.
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@btfitzpat Why? Why does "no one get hired unless a faculty in some department at the university votes to hire them'?
Do they not work for the board of trustees?
(I've pondered this for years, but still don't know.)
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Is it really possible to get more conservatives in academia? I have some bad news: it is going to be difficult.
lawliberty.org/diversifying-t…
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@__douglasgreen Odd that “engineering” is one field/major.
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Changes in college majors over the last 50 years is interesting if for no other reason than to let you know that business is still important and we still don't care about precision manufacturing, which appears to be more of a problem than we care to admit.
flowingdata.com/2026/02/19/fie…
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@malgorium @tomloveless99 I disagree with his take on knowledge in ELA curricula, but,…
He has more credible expertise in education than most. And probably as much as Mark.
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@tomloveless99 I mean, is it really an ad hominem attack to point out that an educational 'expert' doesn't really have much credible experience or expertise in the area of education?
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Stop the ad hominem attacks. They are disgusting. If you have a problem with particular ideas, object to them and offer evidence to support an alternative view.
Christine@clharrington024
Timothy Shanahan has positioned himself as an “expert.” You hear his name in education circles uttered like God. And yet, under scrutiny he: -never graduated high school (according to Grok) -taught elementary school for exactly 3 years -all his advance degrees are in colleges of education, which we know are absolute dumpster fires of terrible ideas and policies. -CONSULTED ON THE GARBAGE WONDERS program This dude is a fraud and a joke. Bottom line…..all these “experts” in education (who aren’t even teaching) need to go. I only take seriously the expert wisdom of true scientists. Education should be 100% governed by neuroscience, not pseudoscience, which is what education degrees are.
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@clharrington024 The problem with 'true scientists' is that they aren't that good at engineering.
That is, you'd never fly on an aircraft designed by a group of aerodynamics and metallurgical scientists. (Well, I wouldn't,)
The same holds true in edu.
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Timothy Shanahan has positioned himself as an “expert.” You hear his name in education circles uttered like God. And yet, under scrutiny he:
-never graduated high school (according to Grok)
-taught elementary school for exactly 3 years
-all his advance degrees are in colleges of education, which we know are absolute dumpster fires of terrible ideas and policies.
-CONSULTED ON THE GARBAGE WONDERS program
This dude is a fraud and a joke.
Bottom line…..all these “experts” in education (who aren’t even teaching) need to go. I only take seriously the expert wisdom of true scientists. Education should be 100% governed by neuroscience, not pseudoscience, which is what education degrees are.
Olivia Mullins@oliviajune82
I have criticized Timothy Shanahan because he would frequently weigh-in on knowledge-building without disclosing his role as an author on basal curriculum programs. In this article he is cited as a "veteran reading researcher and professor emeritus" governing.com/policy/souther…
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Teacher EcoSystems Matter retweetledi
One thing that stood out to me from the video clips we watched last week in the @TeachLikeAChamp workshop was the high-level vocabulary the teachers used with students. Not just the vocabulary words being explicitly taught, but the words they used as part of their instruction and discussion.
Because the teachers didn’t “dumb down” their speech, their students were immersed in the most wonderful and natural vocabulary-rich environments. Hearing the students mimic the teachers in their comments and questions was beautiful.
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We can do this with a good chunk of high school.
Lucy Taylor@aurumfinancial
Mandating financial literacy is THE fastest way to make students hate it. Humans value what is scarce and desired. Make the curriculum exclusive. Make it a game. Make them chase it.
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@griswold Maybe I should have left out “again”. But, it seems that AP offers society little. As does Dual Enrollment.
If a student blazes through HS academic work in math, etc, give them broader studies.
There’s enough to choose from.
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Hot take: eliminate AP classes and credits entirely.
Instead, teens that want college credit should have free access to dual enrollment programs under their state university system to earn college credit via college classes.
AP test incentives are misaligned in the worst way:
"Students and families are happier because they get college credit. . . . Schools are happier because they look good. Governors and state agencies are happier because they get to brag about it.”
Dual enrollment does not resolve every incentive problem, but it at least eliminates one layer of abstraction. It also can help reduce the cost of college by shifting some general requirements into the academic stagnation that is high school.
This could be the simplest way to pivot American high schools toward tracking, too, so long as students not looking at college are also able to access courses that lead toward interests and industry certification.
To anyone who defends AP classes are the last leg of meritocracy in schools, I'd argue it's more meritocratic to not gate keep the real thing just because someone is slightly younger than a college freshman. The ceiling can be much higher.
It is possible, as the College Board suggests, that "AP standards for qualifying scores remain more stringent than grading standards in many college classrooms." Sure; but that's an issue for the state colleges to resolve. College students regularly transfer in with community college credits for these introductory courses, so the colleges have already determined that AP tests are unnecessary.
AP tests are the signature of a decades-long evolution of high schools choosing college prep over life prep, so it's not a unqualified scapegoat to begin moving in another direction.
I welcome any steel man against this idea.
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@eduleadership @PSkinnerTech Honestly, Patrick—and I often agree with Justin on some things—having a discussion about the efficacy of “edtech”, like that was an actual thing, seems a waste of time.
“Edtech” has become a bugaboo for some people in the way “religion” has been.
Ignore anyone using the word.
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@PSkinnerTech So after 20 years and half a trillion dollars, why should any particular person think this is a similar situation and they’re Edison?
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The problem is that a lot of smart people are working on a solution category that has been proven not to work.
I’m not saying it can never work, but it would be truly extraordinary, and people don’t seem to have any particularly extraordinary ideas.
Patrick Skinner - edu/acc@PSkinnerTech
@eduleadership So, you think that instead of becoming part of the solution, because you have no solution, you'd rather hate on the others who are trying to develop a solution. Because there's clearly a problem, and many are trying to develop a solution... except you.
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@clharrington024 @CurriculumIP FWIW, we don’t know that it wouldn’t have been worse without him.
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I don’t ever want to hear about Tim Shanahan as an “expert” again when his contribution to education is creating the absolute crap “Wonders.” What an absolute fraud.
Karen Vaites@karenvaites
PSA: Tim Shanahan helped create Wonders, the McGraw-Hill curriculum with zero books in chapter book grades. Now, he's an expert "crafting" McGraw's new, extra-digital Emerge program. It purports to help students build a "vast, interconnected network of knowledge," because everyone knows kids need this to succeed as readers! McGraw's marketing team knows it, at least. So if Tim does an interview and expresses doubts about the importance of knowledge-building, maybe this is a dissonance journalists should ask him about? From the Emerge marketing materials: mheducation.com/prek-12/progra…
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My entire feed has become Books!
Great Books!
Old books!
AI!
Homeschool!
Books!
Folks, if you start with the wrong domain knowledge, the medium is largely irrelevant.
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@mdroush A GED will probably work, but, in general…yes?
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@CreditFlex Do you have to have a high school diploma to get in on that Journeyman route?
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Imagine high schools that got this.
Maria Davidson@mariardavidson
To get 500,000 more electricians over the next decade, we need to make this clear: 4 years in, a union trade apprentice will have made $250k+. A college graduate will often be saddled with debt and searching for a job. Skilled trades jobs will be a lot more immune to AI.
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Excited to announce all 5 Upper Arlington elementary schools named to Governor DeWine’s Science of Reading Champions! @CityofUA OHKID_ education.ohio.gov/Topics/Learnin…
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Dylan Wiliam@dylanwiliam
@hastieteaches The idea that 1 year's learning in K-12 is on average 0.4 sd is OK though I don't think an average makes sense when it's 1.5 sd for 6 year olds and 0.2 for 15 year olds. After all, someone with one foot in boiling water and one in freezing water is not "on average" comfortable.
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0.15 SD on a course final exam means nothing. Noise.
Ethan Mollick@emollick
AI really can help education: Randomized controlled experiment on high school students found a GPT-4o powered tutor that personalized problems for students raised final test scores by .15 SD, "equivalent to as much as six to nine months of additional schooling by some estimates"
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Teacher EcoSystems Matter retweetledi
New study involving 770 high school students over 5 months across 10 schools. All students got the same lectures, course material, and GenAI tutor. The only difference: half received a fixed sequence of practice problems (easy to hard, standard practice), while the other half had their problem sequence dynamically personalized by a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm.
The result: students with adaptive sequencing scored 0.15 standard deviations higher on an in-person, handwritten final exam: no devices, no AI assistance.
By some estimates, that's equivalent to 6–9 months of additional schooling. No extra instruction time or additional teacher workload. Beginners with no prior experience saw the largest gains (0.215 SD). Students at lower-tier schools benefited more than those at elite schools.
linkedin.com/posts/johnbail…
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@cristina_gw No doubt! And do a great job!
We just need far more public schools to spread the word. 😎
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@0Beanie05923291 Many of 'the classics' really appeal only to a certain type of person. However, those people have a great influence on Academia.
So, best to know what they are up to. ("Oh. They obsess on Falkner and Eliot.")
OTH, balance? For us normal people?
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A friend and I were recently discussing some of the classics we’ve read and some that we still need/want to read. He said the only reason he’s read some of them was because teachers made him when he was in school. He didn’t appreciate it then, but now he’s really grateful they did.
Oftentimes, teachers (and parents) don’t realize the positive impact of their relentlessness and persistence when they refuse to cave to the complaints of surly teenagers. The students who are forced to read great literature in school likely won’t appreciate it until much later in life. When they do, they’ll think of you with gratitude.
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Why are't teachers 'treated like professionals'?
Well,...this is what your 'profession' has evolved to in 2025.
Meanwhile, the edu-foundations who are supposed to be helping are doing,... what, again?
CANCEL YOUR @NEAtoday DUES TODAY!
Liz Stepan@LizStepan
I spent 6 hrs prepping at the high school today. That is after 10 hrs of lesson planning and creating materials over the weekend. I am steeped in language and literacy research and trying to make a bridge into classroom practices. This is brutally tough *volunteer* work!
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@schooladvocate8 @JAustinEDU No comprende.
LETRS IS the training.
It’s just, for the most part, not the right training.
(For specialists, it’s great!)
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@CreditFlex @JAustinEDU Districts pour hours into PD. It's a failure on the district if they haven't provided proper training, not the product. The use of phonics, phonemes, graphemes, blending, segmentation are relatively easy to understand. University ed programs need to step up though.
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If you're appalled by the lack of research supporting i-Ready, wait until you hear about the lack of research supporting LETRS.
Cambium/Lexia is one of the biggest recipients of corporate welfare from state governments, all for training that has not been proven to work.
Patrick Graff@parthurgraff
I went down an i-Ready rabbit hole a couple weeks ago. This is a edtech platform used by ~ 1/3 of K-8 students in the country. Students are spending a massive amount of instructional time using their product. Yet, there are NO RCTs (experimental studies) and few external evaluations that demonstrate that their adaptive learning platform works 😶🌫️🙃 What evidence does exist? It doesn't get better..
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