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Dean Pagliaro

@DeanPagliaro

eCommerce Director. Focused on effective web & marketing solutions. Passionate about technology and creating a better future.

Holmdel, NJ Katılım Aralık 2011
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Dean Pagliaro
Dean Pagliaro@DeanPagliaro·
For decades, American schools abandoned systematic phonics instruction in favor of Whole Language and later Balanced Literacy. These approaches were built on the false premise that reading develops naturally through exposure to books and context, rather than through explicit instruction in how written language maps onto spoken sounds. Cognitive science has long demonstrated that this assumption is incorrect. Reading is not innate, and most children require structured, sequential teaching to become fluent readers. Under Whole Language and Balanced Literacy, students were encouraged to guess unfamiliar words using pictures, sentence context, or first letters instead of decoding them. While this could appear effective in early grades with simple texts, it reliably failed as reading demands increased. Many students reached upper elementary school without the ability to decode unfamiliar words, leading to widespread reading failure that was often misattributed to attention issues, socioeconomic factors, or vague learning differences. The harm was not evenly distributed. Children from affluent families often received outside tutoring or parental support that compensated for weak instruction. Students from lower income households, English language learners, and children with dyslexia were left without a safety net. The result was predictable and devastating. Millions of children were denied access to literacy, a foundational skill that determines academic success across every subject area and strongly influences long term life outcomes. What makes this failure especially troubling is that it persisted despite decades of clear evidence. Research on phonemic awareness, decoding, and reading acquisition has been consistent since at least the 1990s. Instead of correcting course, institutions rebranded the same ineffective practices, protected ideological commitments, and avoided accountability. Teachers were trained to use methods that science had already discredited, placing them in an impossible position and later blaming them for the results. In recent years, a growing movement grounded in evidence has begun to reverse this damage. Known as the Science of Reading, this approach aligns classroom instruction with what cognitive and neurological research shows about how children learn to read. It emphasizes explicit phonics, phonemic awareness, structured progression, early screening, and timely intervention. Several states have adopted these reforms, but one of the most notable examples is Alabama. Alabama enacted comprehensive literacy reforms beginning in 2019 that required reading instruction to align with scientific research. The state changed teacher preparation standards, invested heavily in professional development, and explicitly rejected cueing based approaches that encourage guessing. Teachers were trained in how reading actually develops and how to teach decoding systematically from the earliest grades. Early results from Alabama and similar states in the Deep South have been striking. On national assessments, these states have shown meaningful gains in reading proficiency, particularly among younger students. While the damage caused by decades of failed instruction cannot be undone overnight, the trajectory has clearly changed. Where evidence based phonics instruction is implemented with fidelity, reading outcomes improve. This is not a matter of educational preference or politics. It is a matter of scientific reality. The long experiment with ideology driven reading instruction failed, and children paid the price. Alabama’s progress demonstrates that literacy failure is not inevitable and that when schools align instruction with how the brain learns to read, students succeed. The lesson is simple and uncomfortable. The crisis was avoidable, the solution was known, and the cost of ignoring evidence was measured in millions of children who never received the education they deserved. #Education #Schools
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Dean Pagliaro
Dean Pagliaro@DeanPagliaro·
This idea isn’t new. It’s been tried over and over, and it keeps ending the same way. On paper, nationalizing everything sounds like you’re taking control and redistributing wealth. In reality, you’re handing massive power to a centralized system that has worse incentives and less accountability than the private sector. Things don’t get more efficient. They slow down, get politicized, and start breaking. Look at Venezuela. They nationalized key industries, including oil through PDVSA. Instead of prosperity, production collapsed. A country sitting on huge oil reserves ended up with shortages and people fleeing. Same story in Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe. Land and assets were seized in the name of fairness. Output tanked. Food shortages followed. The economy didn’t rebalance. It unraveled. And you don’t even have to look far. Eskom is already a state-run system, and it’s been plagued by mismanagement and outages for years. That’s what “public control” has actually looked like on the ground. The pattern is always the same. You remove profit incentives and replace them with politics. Investment dries up because no one wants to put money into something that can be taken. Skilled people leave. Production drops. There’s less to go around, not more. So instead of fixing inequality, you shrink the whole system and then argue over the leftovers. If the goal is to help more people build wealth, you need stability, functioning institutions, and an environment where businesses can actually grow. Blowing up ownership structures doesn’t do that.
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Kalu Aja
Kalu Aja@FinPlanKaluAja1·
Honestly, Nigeria and Africans are too slow and too subtle in responding to this open racism and xenophobia by South Africa. This Nigerian man has his child and a passport, yet he is locked out. No police, the South African government is silent, and Nigeria's government is silent. I think it will take an opposition member in Nigeria to speak up about this xenophobia to wake the Federal government up. This is appalling.
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Dean Pagliaro
Dean Pagliaro@DeanPagliaro·
That assumes something that literally hasn’t happened. The International Court of Justice has not ruled that Israel is committing genocide. There is no verdict. The case brought by South Africa is still ongoing, and the provisional measures people keep citing are not a finding of genocide. They just mean the claim clears a low threshold to be heard. Now layer in the part everyone keeps intentionally leaving out: Gaza has not been a normal civilian polity for nearly two decades. It was violently taken over by Hamas in 2007 after they wiped out their political rivals and turned the territory into a militarized base. From that point forward, you’re dealing with a territory governed by an armed group that embeds within a civilian population and openly conducts war. That matters legally. Civilian harm, even on a large scale, does not equal genocide. Genocide requires specific intent to destroy a people as such under the Genocide Convention. That’s an extremely high bar, and it hasn’t been proven or ruled on. There’s literally no genocide ruling to disprove. What’s happening is people are taking an unresolved legal case, stripping out the governing reality of Gaza, and presenting a political accusation as if it’s already been adjudicated fact. That’s not law, that’s narrative.
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Yossi BenYakar@YossiBenYakar·
British police have reached a new low. 30 officers were sent to arrest a mannequin, because it hurt Muslim feelings. This is not satire. The police have completely lost the plot.
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Dean Pagliaro@DeanPagliaro·
Gaza was not merely “occupied” by Israel or passively victimized. Gaza was conquered internally by Hamas in 2007, after Hamas violently removed Fatah and turned the territory into a fortified base for war against Israel. Once that happened, the legal and political category of Gaza became much more complicated. You are no longer dealing with a normal civilian administration. You are dealing with a territory governed by an armed terrorist organization, embedded inside a civilian population, and tied into a wider Iran-backed regional war structure. That does not erase civilian protections. Civilians remain civilians. But it absolutely changes the frame. Israel is not attacking “Gazans as a people.” It is fighting the military-political regime that captured Gaza and used it as a launchpad for war. Calling that “genocide” strips out the actual governing reality of Gaza and replaces it with propaganda.
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James S. Coates
James S. Coates@brjimc·
@YossiBenYakar Israelis are the worst liars. The mannequin is a Palestine Action protest prop. Police arrested over 500 people that month under terrorism law for opposing Israel’s genocide, including a vicar and an 87-year-old woman.
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swagsta@wagstank·
@NJGov Central Jersey isn’t real please delete this propaganda
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New Jersey@NJGov·
central jersey, south jersey, north jersey
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Dean Pagliaro@DeanPagliaro·
Look at the maps. A lot of blue states have been engineered for years. This did not start with Trump and anyone pretending it did is either clueless or being dishonest. “Responding in kind” is just code for we are going to rig it too. So drop the act. This is about power, not fairness, and it has been that way for a long time.
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KPWest@kenpw97070·
@wakeupnj Trump started this redistricting nonsense in Texas, dumbass. Of course you’ll whine like you whine about everything that blue states are responding in kind.
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Wake Up NJ 🇺🇸 New Jersey
Mikie Sherrill on CNN talking about willing to work with the NJ legislature redistricting "Would you encourage them to do that?" "Depending on how these maps go, certainly." The constitutional side of this is not in their favor to do it quickly, but will they try to push it through anyway? Who knows w/ these clowns 🤡 running the state But if you base this off the last presidential election, that means this was only a +5/6 for Democrats, guess to them that equals over gerrymandering every Republican out of existence just like Virginia did cnn.com/2026/04/30/pol…
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Dean Pagliaro@DeanPagliaro·
The Court made the correct decision because it enforced a core constitutional boundary: race cannot be the primary factor in drawing electoral districts. While the Voting Rights Act of 1965 allows limited consideration of race to prevent vote dilution, that authority is not unlimited. When district lines are predominantly shaped around racial outcomes rather than traditional redistricting principles, it crosses into unconstitutional territory under the Equal Protection Clause. The Supreme Court of the United States acted appropriately in stepping in as a referee, correcting an overreach and reaffirming that safeguards against discrimination cannot be used to justify race-based political engineering.
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Barack Obama
Barack Obama@BarackObama·
Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach. The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.
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Dean Pagliaro@DeanPagliaro·
@benbawan @mrik_nc Incentives drive behavior. With that in mind, I would say there are at least two dozen economic and policy variables that are driving this behavior.
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Benjamin Wolf 🇺🇦
For the first time in recorded history, more Americans are moving to 🇪🇺🇨🇭🇬🇧 EU+EFTA+UK countries each year than Europeans from those places are moving to the 🇺🇸 US. The ratio was 4:1 in favour of the US in the early 2000s. It crossed parity around 2022. This is new.
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Dean Pagliaro@DeanPagliaro·
That’s how representative government works. At best, this is less than a rounding error in a state budget, so it’s more about restitution for the harm done than any meaningful punishment. When the incentives are this mismatched and there’s no real consequence, the government is effectively incentivized to break the law.
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Genevieve Gluck
Genevieve Gluck@WomenReadWomen·
In 2023 the girls' basketball team at a Vermont Christian school refused to play against a team that had a "transgender" (male) player. The state banned them from competing as a punishment. They've just won their lawsuit and the state has been ordered to pay out $566,000.
Jackson Thompson@JackThompsonFOX

A Christian school in Vermont has won over half a million dollars in a lawsuit after its sports teams were banned from competing in the state for years. The ban was punishment for its girls basketball team forfeiting a game to a trans athlete. foxnews.com/sports/vermont…

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Breitbart News@BreitbartNews·
WARMTH OF COLLECTIVISM UPDATE: Mayor Zohran Mamdani declares a "budget crisis," asks for a bailout from the state government, and pushes back his deadline for completing the city budget at least 10 days: "We cannot close this deficit with savings alone. We need new revenue, and we need a structural reset in our relationship with the state. That is the only way to meet our legal obligation to pass a balanced budget."
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David Parker
David Parker@david_parker·
This is why your healthcare sucks. Most of the money is being used to create fake jobs for parasites.
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BaseballHistoryNut@nut_history·
Someone brought a baseball tee, a plastic ball, bat and a short fence at the old folks and everyone had a grand ol’ time hitting bombs
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Brett Stuart
Brett Stuart@bstuartTI·
This is NULL 📽️🍿 A 15-minute short film. 250,000 Runway credits. Created in 4 days. The all-nighters nearly broke me, but this is the thing I’m most proud of making in film or AI. Thanks for hosting AIF & CPP @c_valenzuelab Thanks for amazing anime inspo's @PsyopAnime
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Collin Rugg
Collin Rugg@CollinRugg·
Man who went viral for remaining in his seat as he ate food during the WH Correspondents' Dinner shooting says he didn't want his new tux on the dirty Hilton floor. He also said he is from New York, so he hears sirens and activity all the time. "I’m a New Yorker. We live with sirens and activity happening all the time," Michael Glantz, an agent at Creative Artists Agency, said. "I wasn’t scared. There are hundreds of Secret Service agents hurtling themselves over tables and chairs, and I wanted to watch." "First of all, I have a bad back. I couldn’t get on the floor, and if I did get on the floor, they’d have to bring in people to get me off the floor. And No. 2, I’m a hygiene freak. There was no freaking way I was getting in my new tux on the dirty Hilton floor. It was not happening."
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Dean Pagliaro@DeanPagliaro·
The tax causes harm to the entrepreneurial ecosystem; founders, capital allocators and early-stage investors leave. They don’t just remove their tax base, they remove future company creation, hiring, and mentorship. Also, it harms exactly the phase startups are most fragile; early-stage startups that have high valuations (on paper), have low or zero income and are extremely sensitive to cash drain. And this isn’t instantaneous it’s a slow erosion & externalization. This is sustainable as long as their economic buffers don’t shrink (energy), the security umbrella doesn’t weaken & their internal social order isn’t too compromised.
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Jjhhn Gfhb@GfhbJjhhn·
@MPelletierCIO Not true tho. Wealth tax revenue examples: 2015 - 15billion 2019 - 19billion 2024 - 32 billion Agree wealth tax avoiders must be stopped. Maybe rip up citizenship or very high trade barriers on countries like Switzerland
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Dean Pagliaro@DeanPagliaro·
@GLHFDDmovie Marketed as a time-loop film. No loop, no payoff, no ending. That’s not subversive, it’s just unfinished, lazy and a betrayal to the audience.
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Chris Ryan
Chris Ryan@Watchdog_MP·
🚨 BREAKING: Toronto Police just seized “SMS Blasters” fake cell towers never seen before in Canada. These portable devices hijack thousands of phones at once, blast fake bank/Canada Post texts, and knock out real service (even 911 calls). Tens of thousands of phones hit. Over 13 MILLION disruptions. Three men charged 🇨🇳 • Dafeng Lin, 27, of Hamilton • Junmin Shi, 25, of Markham • Weitong Hu, 21, of Markham This is next-level cyber crime on our streets. Stay alert. Never click surprise links. #Toronto #CyberCrime #ScamAlert
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National Post@nationalpost

Toronto police seize 'SMS blasters,' a cybercrime weapon never before seen in Canada nationalpost.com/news/canada/to…

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Adam Thierer
Adam Thierer@AdamThierer·
truly one of the most amazing developments in trans-Atlantic tech policy over the past 20 years is the way that Europe set out to regulate US tech giants into the ground, but only made them more dominant as a result. This Economist headline really says it.
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James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️@JimPethokoukis

'Here is an uncomfortable truth for hand-wringing policymakers: Europe’s dependency on America is in no small part Europe’s own fault. Decades of over-regulating the old continent’s economy left businesses there unable to compete with American firms' economist.com/europe/2026/04…

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Tim Young
Tim Young@TimRunsHisMouth·
The CBS News segment on SPLC defrauding its donors and paying hate groups is wild. “The SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose.” Great reporting!
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