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@scottadamson11 @clharrington024 Akshually... that is precisely what we (I'm English) have just been given credible evidence for. By one of our most notorious mixed-ability cheerleaders too.

@clharrington024 There is no credible evidence to support-"The bottom quartile hold back the KIDS AT THE TOP." The kids at the top may have many advantages like ec. security;two parent family,etc. The ed. system's job is to create equitable opportunities for all

This confirms what every teacher in the classroom knows. Ability grouping works. The bottom quartile hold back the kids at the top. We are throttling our top achievers and it will destroy our country. We need innovators and thinkers and developers. We must unleash our top achievers, let them run. Those students in the bottom quartile need small classes with teachers and pull out interventions. Push in does not work, it simply distracts the rest of the class and makes the classroom noisy. Every school elementary-high school must move to ability grouped classes. No more grade levels. They are arbitrary and don’t matter. Let kids accelerate as fast as possible, and conversely give the students who are struggling the intervention they need.

@philmcraig @StephenMoss_TV Was hardly visible in the original colour photo so made it monochrome & messed w. the contrast.

@NetNym @StephenMoss_TV Spooky

A bump in the night and a remarkably detailed mark on the window. A pigeon with a headache @StephenMoss_TV ?

@philmcraig @StephenMoss_TV Best I could do:

@philmcraig @StephenMoss_TV Receipt:

Listen to the hurt and frustration in this teacher’s voice. Because she works in a system that asks her to manage the behaviour of the complex sea of humanity with no tools or systems to keep safety, dignity and order. Because the default mechanism she’s allowed to use to respond to disruption is a restorative chat and little else.

*quiet

Think the kid was high-school age. The age when daughter's girl friends jokingly gave her most likely to become a serial killer. In public she's relatively quiwt, stoic & inscrutable. Do some teachers become their pupils, or does teaching select for less grown up?

So anyway, the GENER8ION video. Why Leeds & why 2034?

NEW BLOG: Now Suddenly Nuance Matters emaths.co.uk/blog/general-e…

@cbokhove @rastokke @greg_ashman Was there an urgent reason for your original vague comment, which appears to have been crafted as an invitation to readers to impute *something*? I just want receipts. How many mathematicians are doing that & what are they asserting should happen at the chalkface?

@rastokke @greg_ashman Incorrect Anna. Firstly, Greg has a tendency to impute his own 'speculations', see my timeline for quite positive comments on how you engage with the field, although imo a bit one-sided.

I wonder why mathematics professors with little or no experience in schools think they know how best to teach mathematics in schools.

@theenglishwitc1 @Miss_Snuffy 22yo daughter has a shiny maths degree, but one of her other talents us that she can write extremely well. Suppose she got to wring a few years of glory from that. Oh well. Perhaps she can learn to write less well to head off accusations of using AI.

AI detectors don’t work because they’re, uh, AI. And AI was trained with the best of texts which is why people often get accused of using AI when they just have good SPaG. It’s a mess at the moment, but students who use AI for essays will end up being exposed in exams or in their careers.

You hear this and students will rightly conclude that they would be better off using AI for their university essays. End of education! 😳

@drhingram Oh. We got caught by one taking 3-4 year-old daughter to closest neighbourhood park to try bike riding. They blurred & disappeared us at some point. Still visible from a virtual distance but we fade away if you get up that close.

Are the people of Warwick ok?

Had to think about that because it requires good-enough AI almost 3 years ago, but yes it probably was. Won't just be humanities w. associated trouble, although will obviously be less for courses w. lots of traditional terminal exams in halls.

The problem with the hereditaries is not that they are anti-democratic, but that they are a bulwark against such grubby cronyism

There’s been a conspiracy among the education “experts” to promote inquiry/discovery learning despite the evidence it doesn’t work.

FWIW that took a few rounds of "No, only change the colour of the flag material to white. Do not change their jacket. Do not change the pole. Do not..." w. Grok. Turned into a kind of Dr Seuss story. I do not like that GrokAI. Change the flag Not the sky

Correct. Like this...

Lord Smith is right - this is naive folly given endemic test fraud in many countries, worsened by new tech, plus the huge incentive of access to British welfare and public services - already a lifetime benefit of almost £1m for some migrants. Think again. telegraph.co.uk/gift/d6c271c89…

Banksy should do a statue in Rotherham of a teenage girl with a knife in her back.