Jessica Petote Doyle👩‍🏫🐾🍎

More days in school doesn’t mean more learning. And this isn’t opinion. The data backs it up. The OECD has reported that simply increasing instructional time does not improve student outcomes. Pew Research shows there’s a wide range of instructional hours across countries, with no consistent link to performance. If time alone worked… the countries with the most hours would dominate. They don’t. In fact, students in the United States already spend more time in school than many countries. By the end of lower secondary school, students in Finland receive about 6,300 hours of instruction. In the United States, it’s more like 9,000+ hours. That’s a huge difference. And yet… more time hasn’t translated into better outcomes. So it’s not a time problem. It’s how we use the time. High-performing countries don’t cut arts, PE, and music to make room for more academics. They protect them. Because they understand these actually help improve student learning. Movement improves focus. Arts build creativity and thinking. Music strengthens cognitive development. So while we’re trying to cram more academics into more time… They’re building better learners. That’s why they can do less time and still get strong results. But we keep going back to the same thinking, if a little is good, more must be better. That logic doesn’t hold up anywhere else. No coach is doubling practice time thinking it will double performance. That’s not better training… that’s overtraining. And overtraining doesn’t build athletes, it breaks them down. The brain works the same way. There’s a limit to how much it can take in before more actually starts working against you. You don’t get better learning—you get fatigue, disengagement, and burnout. Especially with kids. So when we add more days without changing the experience, nothing really improves. We’re just stretching out the same problem over a longer period of time. We don’t need more time. We need to use time the way kids actually learn, not the way it gets designed by people who aren’t in the room.

@BasedRedWolf Honestly I have no idea what value they bring. Nothing they do impacts my classroom or makes things better for students or staff.

I am so tired of budget emails that say we are cutting teachers when central office is flush with staff. Let’s re-establish basic priorities of public education.

@ArchbspMegtrnQC @theepicmap 😂😂

@theepicmap I saw a documentary about this in the 80s. I believe there actually were plans to develop the Astoria area, but some kids found a pirate ship or something and this somehow prevented it.

Why are there basically no major cities on this stretch of the US West Coast?

I'm partnering with Scholastic to give $200k to teachers ($200 to 1,000 teachers)! The link to enter is here: bit.ly/4sVnXK0 . The website for entries will close the last day of Teacher Appreciation Week: 5/8/26. What are you waiting for? Go enter!

I saw a woman on TikTok say she was a "good girl" her whole life. Did everything the "right" way. Followed the rules. Kept the peace. Put everyone else first. Now she's in her 40s and said all she feels like she has to show for it is grief and a lot of built-up anger. And honestly, as a woman, I felt that deeply. Because nobody really talks about how being the "good girl" often benefits everyone around you except the actual good girl. Everyone else gets the patience, the understanding, the sacrifice. And she's the one left realizing she spent years shrinking herself just to keep everyone else comfortable.

Trump would rather pay for foreign wars instead of pay for American day care. This is where we are at. Watch more Pod Save America on YouTube!

Never ask again how Hitler happened

I miss having a kind human as a president‼️

And generally applicants are less advantaged than final users of the voucher—regardless of how approval priority tiers work. The reason is basic: private schools—not parents or the state—get to choose which voucher-approved students actually get to enroll in their schools.

Mr. President: I have a better idea. Instead of spending over a trillion dollars on never-ending wars abroad while plunging the working class into poverty here at home, let’s invest in universal childcare, Medicare for All and affordable housing. America first!

WATCH: The White House took down this video, but we still have it. Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

The Arizona Department of Education and ESA advocates have relentlessly attacked @CraigHarrisNews for reporting 20% of parents misspent millions in the state’s voucher program. An ADE supervisor now confirms the findings were accurate.

@RAD_is_awesome 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Instead of hiring more central-office administrators, the board has decided to hire more teachers to reduce class sizes for next year.

@DoctorLemma We sang it every Friday in my classroom that school year! We loved it.

Her mother spent $4,000 to record a birthday song for a thirteen year old girl. It changed the next decade of that girl's life in ways nobody could have predicted. The song was called Friday. Rebecca Black recorded it during school break, just for fun. It sat at around 1,000 views for a month. Then it didn't. It became the most disliked video on all of YouTube. The count was public back then. Everyone could see it. Millions of people had gone out of their way to press a button just to register their contempt for a thirteen year old girl. She was in eighth grade. Kids at school would walk past her singing it in mocking voices. Food was thrown at her. She received threatening messages serious enough that police investigated them. She eventually switched to homeschooling. At nineteen, almost every producer she approached told her they would never work with her. She wrote years later that she had spent most of her teenage years terribly ashamed of herself and afraid of the world. She kept going. Lady Gaga called the song genius. Katy Perry championed her publicly and invited her to appear in her own music video. Friday was covered on Glee. Her 2023 debut album received critical acclaim. In 2025 she released her second album, toured across North America and Europe, and opened for Katy Perry on a world tour. She has turned down every offer to have the video removed from the internet. She said pulling it down would only attach more shame to something she no longer feels ashamed of. The video has been watched over 167 million times.

@sciencegirl Dr. Quandary, Oregon Trail, solitaire, and the mine game

For those who used a computer between 1995 and 2001, what's the computer game from that time that sticks with you the most, and why

@FixingEducation In elementary, 24 is too many with the increase of high emotional needs and massive academic gaps.

𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘀: We need better schools! 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀: •Ok, can we get classes with 24 or less students? •Can we have more time to prepare for classes? •Can we hold kids accountable for their actions? 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘀: Just shut up and do your job!

Trump's DOJ has been quietly removing Epstein files from the DOJ website since the attack in Iran ; CBS reports. This is a coverup.

What % of the current TN voucher users were already in private school? @TNedu has the number. Why won’t they release it?

Trump is building an army loyal to him alone, and paying them up to $250k/year. If you can’t see ICE for what it is yet, then you’re not going to until it’s too late.