NYC School Secrets

@VincentPsychSE @RiotIQ @ROBERTO_COLOM @ICAJournal In NYC we test you once at age 4. Once labeled gifted, you are gifted for life and nothing will ever change that. It's very scientific!

@RiotIQ @ROBERTO_COLOM @ICAJournal Wow this is great. Yes I think too many kids were told they high IQ which set them up to fail.

A new study by @ROBERTO_COLOM and his coauthors (published in @ICAJournal) examines the stability and change in IQ in children with above-average intelligence at age 7. What it finds is revealing. The major finding is that IQ changes in childhood are common. In early childhood, large IQ fluctuations are common. These changes get smaller in adolescence, but they still happen. Moreover, the changes tend to be larger for children with IQs of 115+ at age 7 (right panel) than those with IQs of 99-114 (left panel). This is not terribly surprising because regression towards the mean should be larger in the higher-IQ group. Documenting these changes is important, but the authors also investigated whether IQ changes could be predicted by DNA-based polygenic scores, background variables, home environment, and behavioral problems. The results showed that increasing IQ through childhood and into early adulthood was positively associated with higher polygenic scores and higher socioeconomic status. The most consistent predictors of increasing IQ was the DNA-based polygenic scores and socioeconomic status. The most consistent predictor of decreasing IQ was behavioral problems, though adverse life events were pretty consistent in the 99-114 IQ group. These results match prior studies on cognitive development and confirm the importance of genes in determining the adult IQ of a person. They also show the importance of seeing children's intelligence as a trait that is still in the process of developing. Practices like giving IQ tests to very young children and labeling the as "gifted" for the rest of their education are not justified. In this study, only 16% of children with IQs of 115+ still had a score that high at age 21. Regularly reassessing children's cognitive development is best practice.

@chadwifeyeet My husband sings it to me all the time - and my name isn't even Maria!

My favorite part of the sound of music is this gang of nuns singing a song about how the postulant is annoying and unreliable and ADHD. And then when that postulant leaves to get married, the gang of nuns sings that same song as she walks down the aisle

@JewishWonk No one on either side has ever understood that ever.

Does anyone in Republican politics understand that at some point a Democrat is going to be in the White House and can use the same tools they are advancing for different goals

@MrDanielBuck I went to school in San Francisco, where multiple teachers brought in guest speakers to explain how wonderful Communism is to the kids of primarily Soviet and Chinese immigrants. So, yeah, we knew.

I don’t know about you guys, but growing up I had no clue what my teachers thought about politics and they never discussed current events in class Maybe we should go back to that

I asked parents, teachers and kids what they thought of the new cell phone ban. Boy, did they have thoughts! Via @The74 : the74million.org/article/from-b…

@karr_pe Just going by my experience with NYC, students are automatically enrolled in 9th grade unless they opt out, so those could be "shadow" enrollments, kids who were signed up and never went, but the absence isn't noted until 10th grade.

These are enrollment numbers by school and grade for CMSD high schools in the 2024-2025 school year. Lots of students sign up for 9th grade and then flee for 10th grade. CMSD has never tried to explain the phenomenon, nor tokd us how they will fix this when they close and consolidate schools.

How it's going.... the74million.org/article/from-b… @The74

@JewishWonk I'm waiting for the same boycott of the China market, for the same reasons.

At the same time that this kind of stuff is happening people will still claim Jews run Hollywood. Would be nice for these people to face professional consequences for their bigotry, but Jew hatred is all the rage lately.

@cheriewony Now do fiance and fiancee....

i just realised that blond is for man and blonde is for woman?????

'Tis the season for the annual debate about G&T programs and specialized high schools. How getting rid of one affects the segregation in the other. Via @The74 Media the74million.org/article/adams-…

@teachrobotslove Are we married to the same man?

My husband is one of the most intelligent people I've ever met, and I was immediately taken by him, but over the years, I've come to learn most people can't see it. He dresses simply. He uses plain language. He likes superheroes and video games. They conclude they're not seeing a smart person. People aren't looking for intelligence itself. They look for signifiers of it, the song and dance of it, the whirling bedazzlement of "genius," like a peacock spreading its wings. That is how easy it is to fool someone.

First day of school in #NYC means it's time for a Moms Mean Business (NBC-NY)... about schools in NYC! youtu.be/CJ4yaVaQFPA?si…

#NBC #NY did a feature on me and my NYC School Secrets: nbcnewyork.com/video/moms-mea…

Moshe Shamah, a Jerusalem-based artist, is coming to New York to show his new series 'To Those Who Fight For Life.' He also happens to be a good friend of mine. If you'd like to see his art, he's doing an event with @UJAfedNY's Former Soviet contingent. ujafedny.org/event/view/fsu…

@BkDigest @queens_parents No way to know if that's true except try it and see...

@queens_parents To fight the billionaires you have to become one yourself!

Squad members are raking it in to fight the billionaires.

A preview of me talking about getting into #NYCSchools via: @nbcnewyork/video/7545809142015872269" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tiktok.com/@nbcnewyork/vi…

@alexanderrusso This actually makes me more nervous about how prepared they are... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10626367/

"Nearly six in 10 middle and high school students now agree they feel prepared for the future, an 11-percentage-point increase over 2024." Gen Z Students More Engaged in School, Ready for the Future news.gallup.com/poll/694238/ge…

I had a plan for how this summer of book promotion would go. It failed. Spectacularly. Read all about it at: alinaa.substack.com/p/a-novel-an-a…

@esanzi I will let my African-American math teacher husband and our math PhD applying son know they are... doing it wrong? (Or right? Have they evolved past these sorts of issues? Struggle sessions are so hard!)

Welcome to the annual conference for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics! Here are just two sessions on the agenda for October that caught our eye:

@hieireen A "reimagining" of the word "smart."

what’s it called when you’re very smart but can’t remember anything and know literally nothing