How do we prepare young people to flourish? By promoting high-quality *American* Education grounded in The Science of Learning and Liberal Democratic values.
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Rob Schläpfer retweeted
A quarter of a century ago, CNN said that 60% of the world’s coral reefs would be lost by 2030.
That prediction isn’t working out too well.
Stefan Rahmsdork is just fear mongering, as usual.
Marine scientists have warned for a long time about this.
Will the warnings about other tipping points also be mostly ignored?
Or will the world start to prioritise stopping global warming?
We can do it, but time is running.
cp24.com/news/world/2026/10/…
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New study shows that naloxone expansion did not explain the decline opioid overdoses that began in 2023 - administrations of the rescue drug actually dropped.
statnews.com/2026/10/23/opio…
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BREAKING: The Fifth Circuit, sitting en banc, ruled that immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally can be detained during deportation proceedings without individualized bond hearings, even after living in the country for decades, reversing three orders granting their release.
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"Our beliefs, backgrounds and sensibilities influence the specific content of our thoughts, and they can never really be the same from one thinker to the next." psyche.co/ideas/can-you-ever…
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Hey Oregon… our potential is waiting… @ChristineDrazan
The onslaught of new global ship orders has begun…
Long predicted surge in orders; shippers have deferred orders to replace their aging fleets over concerns of what will be the next fuel as dictated by IMO emission standards. This was a window for growing market share by the US and allies postulated/advocated as far back as Spring 2022.
There is precious little time to get more shipbuilding capacity in the US to meet this growing demand for new ships. This is the window for an American maritime revival!
“…global orderbook at 203.2m compensated gross tonnes (cgt) at the start of September, up 13% year-on-year and just below May’s all-time high of 210.4m cgt.”
“Owners’ willingness to place orders at yards without an established tanker track record likely reflects capacity constraints at established tanker-building yards,” observed Veson.
See the news here: splash247.com/global-shipbui…
See more here about the potential for a revolution in shipping - new intermodalism - and how the US and its allies can leverage its comparative advantages: heritage.org/sites/default/f…
Rob Schläpfer retweeted
The USA is a Liberal Democratic Republic. “Constitutional Republic” is a tautology that obscures what *kind* of Republic it is. This is important because progressives want it replaced with a Social Democratic framework. Making clear distinctions is vital.
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"Citizens must aim at discovering correct answers when they deliberate, and yet the purpose their deliberation serves need not be epistemic at all."
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Hillary Clinton has become the latest Democratic leader to call for packing the Court: "we should seriously look at expanding the Supreme Court while the Democrats are in power." It is part of the conditioning of voters to allow the party to change the system to guarantee power. jonathanturley.org/2026/04/1…
Rob Schläpfer retweeted
Belgium is preparing a criminal case against philosopher @nathancofnas that could result in up to 3 years of jail time.
Why jail a philosopher? Because Cofnas has argued that some race differences in psychological traits might be due to genetic differences. And this allegedly violates a new law that Belgium passed a month ago against 'dissemination of racial ideas' and 'incitement to discrimination or racial hatred'.
Here @Rosalind_Arden_ breaks down this strange story of censorship, retaliation, and institutional bullying of scholars who address taboo topics.
Does what we owe to someone depend on whether we agree with them? quillette.com/2026/10/22/pri…
Rob Schläpfer retweeted
How many times have we defended instructional practices because adults LIKE teaching that way, despite evidence that kids aren’t learning? Project Follow Through showed us what happens when kids actually master skills. We keep protecting adult preferences while children pay the price. #SoldAStory
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“We are finally starting to put a face to the Denisovan”
go.nature.com/4dSoW8B
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This idea--build reading instruction around the child's interest--is how I was trained as a teacher, and what we did in the low-performing South Bronx public school where I taught. It failed and turned bright, capable kids into non-readers. I have spent the last 20 years working against it.
“Find out what the child is interested in. Let the child bring his own book, the book he loves, you know, see if he can read, see if he understands.”
That's how one critic of direct instruction says we should teach kids to read in Episode 3 of Sold a Story.
It sounds lovely. But ask one question:
What about the kid who doesn't have a book?
What about the child with no shelf at home and nobody reading to them at night? The one who's already behind in 1st grade and knows it?
"Follow their interests" works for kids who already read and have every advantage. For everyone else, it's a door that never opens.
This is what adults want reading instruction to look like, because it feels warm, natural, and easy. But the data is clear. Kids learn to read through explicit, systematic teaching of how our language works. Every child deserves that, not just the lucky ones.
When we choose what feels good for adults over what works for children, kids pay the price.
Children over comfort. Evidence over ideology. 📚
#ScienceOfReading #LiteracyNow #ReadingJustice #EveryChildCanRead
#ScienceOfReading
Rob Schläpfer retweeted
A new study of teacher educators found they answered a third of questions wrongly about English spelling. link.springer.com/article/10…
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A student asked author Frank McCourt, a longtime NYC high school teacher, why they had to read a particular book. “You’ll read it for the same reason your parents waste their money on your piano lessons,” he replied. “So you won't be a boring little shite the rest of your life.”
As I get older I continue to stray away from the idea that everything we learn in school needs to be useful when we get to adulthood
Yes there is fluff in school and we are not going to use everything we learn -- some things should probably be cut
But can't we learn things for the sake of learning itself?
Physics, chemistry, etc. are amazing and if taught well can be so fascinating and beautiful
I took a classics class in college (because I had no other choice), was dreading it, and it ended up being one of my favorite classes I've ever taken
I don't need what I learned for my adult life but I'm so happy I took the class since my professor was amazing and made the class an incredible experience
There doesn't always need to be a means to an end
Learning can be the thing itself
Rob Schläpfer retweeted
"Whatever you think of AI’s potential upsides—and I believe they are significant—the most urgent questions around artificial intelligence in education have to do with minimizing harm." bit.ly/4hZcTc1
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At least 40 people are facing federal charges for conspiring to defraud the United States of more than $3 million in fraudulent food stamp purchases.
"When SNAP benefits are stolen, real families go without food," U.S. Attorney Scott Bradford said. "That is unacceptable."
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From Wired: "They Fled Trump’s America. Now They Regret It; The internet told them Europe was a social paradise. Turns out the trains are awful, the health care isn’t free, and people can be really mean." wired.com/story/they-fled-tr…
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"It’s a cognitive race to the bottom." bit.ly/4rLyCaJ
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The French authorities identified Antifa as the largest of three “ideologically distinct groups” responsible for the violence in France. Apparently, some of our Democratic leaders need to explain that Antifa does not exist... jonathanturley.org/2025/10/1…
