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@mathillustrated And…also, that 1% is like cancer. Might be more than 1% of any given organization. But even if 1% of our cells are cancerous, that percentage is deadly.

@mathillustrated Fair

This parodies itself

REDEMPTION! Ilia Malinin the 'QUAD GOD' models the 5th demotion where matter, space, light, sound, and the truly unexplainable consciousness of physical beings converge. youtu.be/p_ot7C7DyVk?si… via @YouTube

@effortfuleduktr @DianeDevine18 I started in PK. PK Ts grow eyes in the backs of their heads. It’s not a mom myth. Survival adaption to prevent being tied down like Gulliver b4 they set place on fire. It only takes 1/2 a second. No army of robots can handle PK. Betting the same for MS. HS will reprogram them!

Me, thinking about Plato controlling a classroom of 30 middle school students...sure, robots are coming to take teacher's jobs...okay.

You don’t know you need this, but you do. Maybe it’s only funny to Texans, but this is a truth-teller.

@HollyLanePhD @karenvaites It gets worse: districts have required strict fidelity to these curricula, teachers are observed & dinged for not following with fidelity. Fidelity to what??? What pieces of instruction were ever scientifically analyzed?

@karenvaites Too bad effectiveness is seldom one of the criteria.

"Absurd" From the woman who developed a viral, virtually-free phonics program, and actually bothered to do research to demonstrate its effectiveness.

@karenvaites @dwofthepeople @0Beanie05923291 The processes for getting on most state lists are absurd. They rely on criteria that don't matter and ignore criteria that do.

Please follow this link to read the full statement from the National Center for Learning Disabilities: ncld.org/ncld-statement…

@mpershan You look younger than I expected.

I don't share a ton of photos of myself but my buddy took this one and it came out well so I'm posting it here.

@mathillustrated Well, I get it. It’s part of scientific method, ie a new hypothesis. But there is a distinct difference in a well thought out hypothesis & a statement that smacks of “should.” That’s how we get wonky policies. And in education, there’s always a to need to say “some but not all.”

@MrsG2nd the research in math ed in the 1950s I’ve been looking at included implications for sure

Ok, @mpershan —I’m lobbing this to you ‘cause it just feels like your kind of query? When did individual ed research studies start including Ed implications? Always? Like, why don’t we just report outcomes & limitations? We can/should explain the analysis, but why implications?

@mathillustrated Olympics are a good example of how pressure can be devastating. Everyone likes to say, “Oh, athletes, musicians, everyone knows practice is necessary.” Of course it is!!But there are plenty of athletes who choke! Some quit. No one should ever dismiss anxiety.

@mathillustrated Anxiety is a complex phenomena. Arm chair podcast/blog/tweet recommendations to just expose them, is irresponsible. Each individual’s fear is different & likely due to many factors. No practicing psychologist would dare give blanket remedy. Why don’t people believe it’s real fear

Thinking about how this era of unsupported and exaggerated claims is similar to and different than others.