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Double-dose Algebra I is one of the few interventions at the high school level to show real promise. Positive effects last into college. But students must be grouped by math skills. When double-dose students near the national median were placed in classes with much lower achieving peers, the positive outcomes disappeared. pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.10…

@tomloveless99 @eduleadership You hit the nail on the head!! How do I get a copy of this article? Do you know of any other research like this you could link me to please ?

Conversation I just had with an AP: Me: “The first time many students will truly fail is in college or real life, when it actually costs them money. That shouldn’t be the first lesson.” AP: “not true…they fail and have to do test corrections.” Me: “No, that’s more like a temporary inconvenience. They put forth minimal effort and are guaranteed a passing grade.” AP: “There is no way to implement failure into the curriculum.” Me: “There is. It’s called accountability.” AP: (laughs) “That’s not going to happen.”

@usanewshq What clone abuse like X does 🧐. There are posts like this all over this platform for all kids of people. In fact there are people that will pay for fight clips to post on X 🤷🏼‍♀️.

The Bachelorette has gone woke in recent years and is run by ABC, which is pure trash. After this footage just came out of the Bachelorette for this season being physically abusive, they now have two choices. Either delete the entire season and apologize. or Condone abuse.

Tucker Carlson just did the math that the Pentagon is hoping we forget. Zero Shiite terror attacks in the US, but we’re spending billions on 'Operation Epic Fury' and a new $400M ballroom for the White House. 🤷🏼‍♀️ This isn't the 'peace through strength' I voted for; it’s just more of the same lies. Love that independent media is actually holding their feet to the fire. 🔥

OMG Tucker Carlson literally cooked Trump and Piers Morgan brutally: - Tucker Carlson: How many Shiite terror attacks have there been in the United States in my lifetime? - Let me do the math - Zero - So don't tell me that the greatest threat we face is Iran. That's a lie

Stop the racial divisiveness. Missiles and wasted tax dollars don't care what color you are. I switched my vote for Trump because he promised NO MORE WARS. Now we're bombing schools and building ballrooms while the 'America First' promise is left in the dust. We aren't Black or White voters; we’re American citizens who were promised better. It’s time to think for ourselves and demand the peace we were sold. 🇺🇸💔"

Black Democrats are a largely symbolic and extremely ineffective section of American Politics that just needs to cease. What black people want and mean to say is that they are "Democratic Proletariats," New immigrants will try to recruit black americans into "Democratic Socialism," which they should reject in whole. Democratic Socialism is basically the DNC asking black people to share the last drop of political relevance they have left to usher in Latinos and Muslims.

@DefiyantlyFree Thank you for your work and research 🧐

Th Ted Cruz is a rino narrative is being peddled by the same pro-Iran faction that hates America. Here is his actual record in case anyone cares about the facts anymore: On January 6th, 2021, hours after a riot at the Capitol, the Senate voted to certify Arizona and Pennsylvania’s electoral votes. Only 7 senators voted to object. Cruz was one of them. JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS — PERFECT RECORD Cruz voted YES on all three Trump Supreme Court picks: ∙Neil Gorsuch ✅ — confirmed 54-45 ∙Brett Kavanaugh ✅ — confirmed 50-48, one of the closest confirmations in history. Several Republicans wavered. Cruz never did. ∙Amy Coney Barrett ✅ — rushed through 30 days before the 2020 election, confirmed 52-48 Beyond the Supreme Court, Cruz voted to confirm Trump’s cabinet and executive appointments consistently across both terms including controversial nominees that caused other Republicans to hesitate. LEGISLATIVE RECORD — VOTING WITH TRUMP Every major Trump priority bill — Cruz voted yes: ∙2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ✅— Trump’s signature legislative achievement. Cruz not only voted for it but pushed for it to go further, advocating for permanent rather than temporary cuts ∙ACA Repeal ✅ — Cruz didn’t just vote for repeal, he co-authored the Cruz Amendment that pushed for a more aggressive repeal than McConnell’s version. He was more anti-Obamacare than Senate leadership ∙Border Wall Funding ✅ every single funding vote ∙Trump Travel Ban ✅ supported it publicly and legally ∙2020 Electoral Objection ✅ Arizona and Pennsylvania both Every major Biden priority bill Cruz voted no: ∙American Rescue Plan ❌ ∙Inflation Reduction Act ❌ ∙Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act ❌ ∙CHIPS Act ❌ ∙Bipartisan Border 2024 ❌ — killed it alongside Trump the moment Trump publicly opposed it BILLS TRUMP PERSONALLY SIGNED INTO LAW — CRUZ SPONSORED This is where Cruz separates himself from senators who merely vote with Trump versus those who actively advance his agenda: ∙TAKE IT DOWN Act : drafted it, led the Senate effort, Trump signed it into law in 2025 ∙Trump Accounts bill: introduced the legislation that became Trump Accounts ∙Drug testing unemployment bill Cruz sponsored, Trump signed in 2017 ∙NASA Transition Authorization Act: sponsored, Trump signed in 2017 Cruz wasn’t just a yes vote. He was putting legislation on Trump’s desk. CONSERVATIVE SCORECARDS — HARD NUMBERS Heritage Action scores by congressional session: ∙114th Congress: 94% ∙115th Congress: 78% ∙116th Congress: 96% ∙117th Congress: 98% ∙118th Congress: 90% That 98% in the 117th Congress: the first two years of Biden’s presidency represents near perfect conservative opposition to the Democratic agenda, perfectly aligned with Trump’s stated positions. GovTrack ranked him 2nd most conservative senator in the entire chamber among long-serving members. Not 10th. Not 20th. Second. THE BORDER: TRUMP’S SIGNATURE ISSUE Cruz has been one of the Senate’s most aggressive voices on immigration since 2013 — before Trump made it his signature issue. When the bipartisan border deal emerged in early 2024 with significant Republican support, Cruz immediately opposed it. The moment Trump publicly killed it, Cruz was already standing against it. He didn’t follow Trump on the border he was already there. He has consistently voted for: ∙Border wall funding ∙Against pathways to citizenship ∙Against any amnesty provisions ∙For stricter enforcement and deportation measures ∙Against sanctuary city funding Anyone that says he’s not a conservative through and through in terms of his voting record and what he’s accomplished and I’m a senator. It’s just a lying propaganda who needs to go work for Russia or Qatar. And it’s we know it’s coming from the same alt media that all the other nonsense comes from.

The brainwashing is strong with this one. 🍵 I was told we were stopping the wars and the waste. Instead, we’re bombing schools and building White House ballrooms with the 'savings.' If this is 'America First,' why does it feel exactly like the neoconservative spending sprees of 2003? Some of us actually read the receipts. 💅

If you’ve heard one doomer, red/faced, blackpill podcast bro, you’ve heard them all. They’re so boring at this point, I can’t roll my eyes hard enough. They’re literally no different than the hardcore Left. YAWN!

@allenanalysis @fire_starter457 Great!! More money for wars and ballrooms at the White House 🤯

🚨 Rep. Neguse just exposed a $143 million no-bid contract live on camera: The company has no headquarters. No website. No prior federal contracts. It was incorporated 8 days before receiving the contract. Its registered address belongs to a political operative. One of its subcontractors is a political firm tied directly to Kristi Noem from her time as South Dakota governor. Neguse asked Noem where the company is headquartered. “I don’t know.” $143 million of taxpayer money. Vanished into a ghost company. Connected to the Secretary of Homeland Security herself. This is the agency running DOGE. Cutting waste. Eliminating fraud.

@nicksortor @TONYxTWO Yep!! PA thinks for themselves !

🚨 BREAKING — IT’S OFFICIAL: Democrats’ attempt to HALT President Trump’s Operation Epic Fury has FAILED, 47-53 John Fetterman crossed over and voted with Republicans.

@krassenstein Thank you for your service 🇺🇸

BREAKING The Army just identified the 5th US service member killed in the Kuwait attack after Trump attacked Iran. Army Reserve Maj. Jeffrey R. O’Brien, 45, of Iowa. This is another American life that has pointlessly been taken in a war that we could have easily avoided if we had adults running the country.

I’m going to be honest and say it: I drank the Kool-Aid. I voted for this administration because I believed the promises of peace, fiscal responsibility, and 'America First.' But how is it 'America First' to watch 168 children die in a school bombing in Iran while our tax dollars fund new wars and luxury White House ballrooms? 🤯😡 I thought I was voting for a leader who would stop the waste and the killing, but I was wrong. As a Christian, my heart is broken. We were promised a better path, but this isn't it. We have to do better than this.

This is devastating. There needs to be an investigation. Did the U.S. bomb the girls school? Old maps? AI?

Yep!! Democrats are going to win 🎉. I’m Independent and won’t be voting Republican . I voted Republican for the first time in my life because I believed in 'America First.' To me, that meant bringing our tax dollars home, cutting wasteful spending, and—most importantly—ending the cycle of endless wars. But how is it 'America First' to spend our money on a new war in Iran and a White House ballroom while 168 children are killed in a school bombing? I didn't vote for more neoconservative warfare; I voted for the peace we were promised. We can't claim to put Americans first while we're funding the same old destruction abroad."

One thing Democrats do better than Republicans is get their people to the polls. Republicans need to start taking primaries and midterms more seriously. If we don't get our butts out and vote, the Democrats will win every time.

I voted Republican for the first time in my life because I believed in 'America First.' To me, that meant bringing our tax dollars home, cutting wasteful spending, and—most importantly—ending the cycle of endless wars. But how is it 'America First' to spend our money on a new war in Iran and a White House ballroom while 168 children are killed in a school bombing? I didn't vote for more neoconservative warfare; I voted for the peace we were promised. We can't claim to put Americans first while we're funding the same old destruction abroad.

@EricLDaugh Not going to happen because Our President is now and will continue to do exactly what we voted for. There is no abandonment because he is not a traitor to America like 80% of the other politicians. Our President is America First! That means us, you and me, first.

🚨 BREAKING: An overwhelming poll just dropped finding President Trump's MAGA Republican approval rating at *98% PERCENT*, with just 2% disapproving — Fox News MASSIVE support from the base! Democrats keep thinking MAGA will abandon Trump, it's not happening 🇺🇸🇺🇸

I voted Republican for the first time in my life because I believed in 'America First.' To me, that meant bringing our tax dollars home, cutting wasteful spending, and—most importantly—ending the cycle of endless wars. But how is it 'America First' to spend our money on a new war in Iran and a White House ballroom while 168 children are killed in a school bombing? I didn't vote for more neoconservative warfare; I voted for the peace we were promised. We can't claim to put Americans first while we're funding the same old destruction abroad.

@EricLDaugh @Crypt0_S0ldier People who believe this are so brainwashed!! Think for yourself 🙄

@NewswirePatriot What about the ones still paying a mortgage 🤷🏼‍♀️. They need the relief probably more than someone who has their home paid off.

🚨 Breaking: Trump says homeowners 65 and older will not pay property taxes. Do you think that's fair?

@luvhuss Wow!! This is a sad reality 😢

My aunt and uncle got divorced today. They are no longer married after 57 years. They're Still in love but divorce was necessary because of uncle's medical bills. Now, when uncle passes, aunt won't be saddled with $277,000 in debt. She's free & the house is in her name. I'm So sad that decades of marriage comes to an end because of the American medical system.

@Darkdarling00 Iowa and Idaho

“What is the only U.S. state that starts and ends with a different vowel?”