Jani Wright

“Fifteen years. Thirteen million students. Not a single high-quality, independent study showing i-Ready improves learning.” And in Georgia? We kept it on the approved list…because it’s widely used. That’s not evidence-based leadership. That’s lowering the bar for kids. We should demand better. @georgiadeptofed @GwinnettSchools @DDGA13 open.substack.com/pub/thedigital…

@MisterScarlett @dandersen9465 @GavinNewsom @realDonaldTrump Can you name which men were president then?

@dandersen9465 @GavinNewsom @realDonaldTrump Imagine not understanding how previous governments sold off American industry to China, you’re the dumb fuck of the day award winner dumb fuck

Great work, @realDonaldTrump!

If behavior is the #1 reason teachers want to leave the profession, parents must ask themselves what part of that is on them? Can't bang the table for parental rights and then take no responsibility for student behavior. Plenty of kids behave well. But too many do not.

@LiberallyLiving @mattyglesias Urban (code: minority) schools are often underfunded and are full of noncredentialed, intern, beginnung, and/or young teachers. Many have long term subs. It's not an ideology issue.

@mattyglesias Probably good that urban schools seem to be filled with bleeding-heart leftist teachers whose whole ideology is that their students are treated too harshly by society and need a break.

@Felgavi @grizzlybizzly @mattyglesias Please explain how equity or NCLB (no longer the law) create grade inflation. With sources cited.

@grizzlybizzly @mattyglesias Equity and no child left behind is driving this. Parents have long been advocates for their children. Schools had standards despite this.

@AustinFNKennedy @disclosetv 🤦‍♀️

@thewrightjungle @disclosetv Eh making money doesn't actually preclude communism, the worst of them profit on the suffering of others but professors are just another cog in the system.

JUST IN - Rapid declines in childhood literacy rates across the U.S. are prompting Nationwide Children’s Hospital to begin screening for literacy skills. Nationally, just over 30% of fourth graders are considered proficient in reading, meaning about 70% are incompetent — AP

@AustinFNKennedy @disclosetv Believe me when I say these universities aren't communist. Professors are publishing or getting into bed with publishing companies (ex: Lucy Calkins and Heinemann) to make money.

I think we agree on more than youd think. Universities have been occupied by literal communists since the 60s. Nobody should trust them without verifying first. And if they dont make those adjustments when they realize what is going poorly they have no business in admin or teaching because clearly it isnt stopping other private systems from operating successfully. It's not results driven in public sector education thats why it fails. Getting rid of the problems you listed might help stop future problems, but you dont need to to start fixing the issues, they just dont fix them because the system is working as intended, its no accident and thats why results vary so much.

@LDSLGBT @AutismCapital @disclosetv NCLB is no longer the law.

@thewrightjungle @AutismCapital @disclosetv "No child left behind." Put in law by the Bush administration.

@Principal_Jon @KJWinEducation Even if I did, it still wouldn't affect my ability to teach. I wear yoga pants, jeans, and/or flip flops almost daily, yet I'm a highly effective teacher. After the umpteenth outfit ruined by paint and Expo markers, I stopped dressing up.

@thewrightjungle @KJWinEducation But you didn't wear pajamas everyday.

Don't know where to start. Flipflops, Starbucks, or ABCs. File under "When kids grow up and express themselves."

@KJWinEducation @karenvaites It might surprise you that many teachers in CA still don't think there's a reading crisis. They see it as the student is slow or the family is not supporting the child. Still.

@karenvaites I know, fam. Young people are brutally honest. I have my perspective about that phrase. But not nearly as incisive as the whole... 'They knew we couldn't read' thing. Its true. We do know. Some try to convince people theres no reading "crisis", but... educators know the truth

@Principal_Jon @KJWinEducation It doesn't matter what you wear of your pedagogy is lacking. If you're on the whole language or BL train, you could wear a suit and it would not matter. I can and have taught reading on pajama day in my pj's and slippers. The kids still took me seriously.

@KJWinEducation Dressing like a professional is such a powerful communication to students that what you are doing is important. It changes how the teacher interacts and how the students perceive themselves. And while I didn't wear a tie every day, I did wear a collared shirt and slacks.

@mikesully97 @KJWinEducation Absolutely, but I can teach kids to read with hugs and flip flops. It's not the tie, the shoes, or the hugs, but the pedagogy that's the real issue. We need soldiers, not saviors in the classroom. We need teachers who fight for Literacy.

@KJWinEducation flip flops and taking a swig of my raspberry cream cold brew, than that other teacher across the hall who’s merely teaching them to read.” There’s also a pervasive mindset that making kids happy RIGHT NOW is more important than anything else. 2/

@AustinFNKennedy @disclosetv Perhaps not Trump, but his puppet masters.

@thewrightjungle @disclosetv I assume you, Trump has no idea what's going on, Koch is an outdated talking point, CEOs are frustrated by this and they often make it known hence the shift away from college grads. No, its really a different subset of people.

@AustinFNKennedy @disclosetv Yes, by people like Trump et al, Koch, etc. CEOs, politicians, the uber wealthy.

@thewrightjungle @disclosetv I think those are all fair points, but a major view of mine is that its intentional, not on the individual level, but intentional holistically to create dumber and less useful people who are not much more than good worker bees because anything else is inconvenient.

@MrDanielBuck In high school yes, but not pre-K to 8th. HS students could perhaps do large lecture format for ELA or history, but not STEAM. Young children need smaller ratios.

Hear me out: I’m convinced that INCREASING class sizes would actually improve education Why? How? Simple: Teacher quality is the single most important in-school factor Consider something radical: Double class sizes and you could cut the worst 50 percent of teachers Think “can hardly do middle school academics themselves” kind of teachers That also would allow SIGNIFICANTLY higher wages, drawing much higher quality candidates If schools actually have the stones to enforce discipline, there’s no reason a larger class would be more raucous. College lecture halls have hundreds of quiet students after all Only people this would really piss off are unions and low quality teachers. Well I say “stay mad” and improve schools regardless

@AustinFNKennedy @disclosetv Right, which is why I say universities, Ed corporations, and politicians are to blame. See my other response re: bad research.

@thewrightjungle @disclosetv Im aware, most states are basically within the same parameters with some exceptions. Most states are all failing the exact same way and do nothing to fix it.

@AustinFNKennedy @disclosetv The papers build on each other, with newer profs citing old ones. It's a house of cards lacking a good foundation, all so that someone can keep their job.

@AustinFNKennedy @disclosetv Communism is not the issue. It's universities pushing professors to publish at all costs. Profs create bogus studies and write papers in order to continue in their jobs. If they were just allowed to teach we probably wouldn't have so many of these issues.

@AustinFNKennedy @disclosetv When teachers/admin go to college and are taught how/what to teach, they believe professors are the experts. The blame lies on universities, corrupt political systems that allow lobbyists in education (incl unions), for profit companies, and politicians who make decisions re: Ed.

And they listened, I dont frankly care who came up with the bad idea if the state education board adopted and the district adopted poor curriculum thats not just a little decrease but a massive one, that's not a results driven adoption, its like I hinted at earlier corruption/misalocation of money. And they haven't adjusted quickly to stem the bleeding like the private market does. The only thing stopping public school from being better is the government and its why government schools are failing, its not a political issue either, its a systemic state failure and its just a good visual for a consistent problem that all public institutions suffer from and private institutions generally dont to the same degree. (Healthcare, university, and agriculture excluded)