@theatomicmom We've been using CLRC and really like it!
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Brian Huskie
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Brian Huskie
@HuskiesEduBlog
https://t.co/LlEHeOLB59 A White Rose: A Soldier's Story of Love, War and School https://t.co/JB0ZfIs8N0
Albany, NY Katılım Kasım 2023
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My 8th grade homeschool son's ELA class:
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
The Chosen
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Light Princess
Frankenstein
A Tale of Two Cities
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
8th grade public school:
Inside out & Back Again
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Mother of Hooligans ☕️@Katherine111594
Homeschooling is fun and cute when your kids are little, however as my kids get older I’m more and more thankful that we’ve chosen to homeschool. At first you just want all that extra time with them and it’s easy and fun and they just get to play a lot. But as my kids get older I see how high of an impact homeschooling has. In every area. How they interact socially with friends, how they integrate into our family, how they process events in life and in media, how they view themselves, and how they take in what they are actually learning in school. The side conversations we have when I’m folding laundry and they wander in with a seemingly random question that actually reveals a much deeper thought. What if they asked their teacher instead of me and she gave a weak or wrong answer? How would that settle into their soul in a way I would never know about? The longer I raise these kids and the more time we spend homeschooling the more I can’t imagine letting them go out into the storm of public school.
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@amandadeibert @CreditFlex I would guess stellar public schools. They do exist.
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@CreditFlex @HuskiesEduBlog I see the stories, it just baffles me because I have a child in public school and this has not been our experience at all so far. Maybe it will happen in middle school or maybe we are just very fortunate to have stellar public schools.
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@measureduntil @akamoderate The full context of my point is here.
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@HuskiesEduBlog @akamoderate You don't have to justify homeschooling to anyone. You're the parent, you do what you think is best.
And yes, your education is a factor. Most parents aren't qualified to teach their kids every subject.
Your point about reading is just silly.
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@MrsJLovesJesus We've been using CLRC for the past few years and are very happy with it:
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My 8th grade daughter’s homeschool humanities curriculum focused primarily on Pre-Christian Europe (created by me):
Core Texts:
Unit 1: The Celtic Mabinogion (Celts and Gauls)
Unit 2: Beowulf (Germanic Peoples)
Unit 3: The Prose Edda (Norse Peoples)
Unit 4: Iliad and Odyssey, Plato’s Politics (The Greco-Romans) ending with the Pax Romana and the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles
Included is study of history, culture, language, and geography. For Math, she’s doing pre-algebra. For Science, we are focusing on Zoology this year with a culminating project of raising Painted Butterflies. She’s also taking creative writing lessons.
Next year, we’re going to focus on Canadian civics, and read a variety of Canadian literature, focus on Algebra 1 for math, and astronomy for science.
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@RafeAtreus I love OMAM and have taught it in 9th grade (public school) for years. My longest substack was on how I interpret that book (I think many teachers get it wrong).
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@HuskiesEduBlog Need a little Steinbeck in there. Of mice and men perhaps. Also, Replace "A midsummer nights dream" with "The tempest". Much less sexual themes...
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@LouiseCulmer1 We use CLRC for ELA and are happy with it. But to each their own!
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@HuskiesEduBlog I would have said Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe was a bit young for 8th grade. More of a 4th grade book I’d say.
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@measureduntil @akamoderate I didn't. But also, I didn't have kids at 18 years old. Do you think a person's entire education, and therefore their justification to homeschool, comes from whatever they learned k-12?
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@akamoderate @HuskiesEduBlog So,.you didn't go to public school?
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@measureduntil I'm comparing curriculum to curriculum. My son read other books on his own. I'm sure some of the public school kids did, too.
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@HuskiesEduBlog Do parents not know they can have their kids read books outside of school?
I don't understand the public vs homeschool comparison.
Most people are homeschooling their children after receiving a public education themselves. Which adds an entirely new absurdity to it.
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@amandadeibert It's always a tricky comparison, because not every public school is the same, and neither is every homeschool family.
That said, having a foot in each world, I'm confident that my example better fits the pattern.
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@HuskiesEduBlog I don’t understand where these 8th grades are…my fifth grader was assigned multiple lengthy chapter books to read at home and they read several in class in addition to that. More than either of those lists…also public school…
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@tetheredtoed1 Great book, but it takes like 1.5 hours to read. We're phoning that in and watching the movie?
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@HuskiesEduBlog 8th grade ELA teacher at “one of PA’s top charter schools”!
Watch the Outsiders movie then give kids this worksheet
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@tetheredtoed1 @TradamWest So in other words, maybe you're right - it's intuitive that you would be - but we've not been able to capture it statistically. It's why VAM failed.
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@tetheredtoed1 @TradamWest I'm saying something very specific.
We cannot reliably detect teacher or school effects, at the aggregate level, with standardized test scores.
You can explain variance in general academic ability and individual effort (and confounds like enl). The rest of the variance is noise
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Ineffective teaching/a failed system doesn't show up in aggregate test scores.
Standardized tests, in the aggregate, reflect differences in academic ability, which is mostly IQ, but is also effort over time (years), which itself is a reflection of individual interest & home life
Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform”@MrDanielBuck
Criticism of standardized testing is largely just cope for two realities: 1) Ineffective teaching/a failed system 2) Differences in IQ
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@TradamWest @tetheredtoed1 "This teacher/program raised test scores by x% by doing y" is the new "multiple intelligences."
It's broadly wrong with the smallest kernel of truth, and yet, it persists.
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@tetheredtoed1 @HuskiesEduBlog Even if they did, which they don’t really, this line of reasoning would mean there’s little student role in learning. And it’s the exact opposite.
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@tetheredtoed1 At population levels that's a guess, not a fact. The effect size, if it exists, is small and consumed by noise.
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@HuskiesEduBlog Standardized tests absolutely measure how much time on task kids get during school instructional hours and efficiency of the system in delivering instruction and improving outcomes.
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@MrDanielBuck The first point may be true, but it's not usually reflected in aggregate test scores. Standardized test scores mostly reflect differences in academic ability (mostly IQ, but also effort over long periods of time). I suspect home life plays a role as well.
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Criticism of standardized testing is largely just cope for two realities:
1) Ineffective teaching/a failed system
2) Differences in IQ
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@MatRyanELATeach #2 is crazy enough, that it's difficult not to think something like that.
I also think Gatsby is a bit high on that list.
I wonder what the specific criteria for selecting & ranking was?
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Whether it should it be #2 is fair criticism. But calling a Toni Morrison selection "tokenism" really misses the mark.
John Podhoretz@jpodhoretz
The Guardian’s panel has chosen the 100 greatest novels of all time and has put BELOVED second. That is among the most ludicrous aesthetic judgments in the annals of Western culture. Embarrassing tokenism.
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@rpondiscio The "these are my kids, this was my vacation, this is why I'm a teacher" presentations are, as the kids say, "cringe".
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@CoachGStories @rpondiscio I feel the same about coaches as I do with buying standardized curriculum. I'm sold in principle, I've never seen it done well in practice. Not once.
But I'm just one guy at one district.
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@rpondiscio But does it? Too often these just become higher paid jobs for friends and family rather than someone who can actually “coach”…oh, and more meetings. Mentors ok, usual nonsense, waste of money.
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If hiring coaches signals a commitment to strong curriculum implementation, it’s a better strategy than handing a program to teachers, giving them a few hours of PD, and telling them to “make it your own.”
Fixing Education@FixingEducation
The State of Maryland is receiving backlash over its plan to spend $14M to hire 61 teacher coaches instead of hiring more teachers for the 2026-27 school year. One teacher said: “I don’t need a coach. I have 40 students. I need fewer students.” Thoughts? wmar2news.com/local/maryland…
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