Pediatric-trained allergist. Reading Partners tutor. President of the @ReadingLeagueTX. Every child should read at grade level by 3rd!
Fort Worth, Texas
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Robert Rogers retweeted
If you have measles, get pneumonia as a complication of measles, and die - that's a measles death. Not a pneumonia death.
Every doctor knows this
The only people who don't are RFK Jr and his anti vaccine pals
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Mississippi Dept of Ed: Top Ten Things that
Every Literacy Leader (Admin) Needs to Know.
I was doing 1 at a time; enough of that. Here's all 10
tinyurl.com/MDE10toKnow
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New Post: What You Might Not Know About Project Follow Through
educationrickshaw.com/2026/0…
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Teaching children to read is one of the most important things we do in education. When we get it wrong, the consequences stay with them for years. What worries me most is how often we cling to methods we know don’t work. Researchers, teachers and parents keep pointing it out. Yet the system barely shifts. We can do better. And our children deserve better.
If you care about public school governance, this post by @rpondiscio is definitely worth your time.
A school board trustee should have high expectations for student outcomes. No longer should the trustee use the demographics of their district as an excuse for poor performance.
A study of school board members shows why they are so vulnerable to institutional capture: They're "dominated by people steeped in education’s internal culture, not by independent-minded representatives of the broader community."
My latest @AEIdeas
aei.org/education/when-schoo…
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#TRLCONF2025
Next time you hear that teachers are not vested in growing and doing better for their children. Show them this picture of everyday teachers who left their homes and family and traveled far to attend a reading conference with the sole purpose of growing and doing better for their students.
“It’s such a long process. There are so many minds to change.”
Great article reviewing the contrast in the level of acceptance of teaching based on learning science in England vs the US.
So many minds to change - the children are depending on us to get this right!
“Most U.S. teachers’ colleges “are not designed with learning science principles at their core — It’s a generational battle to try to change that.” @the74 @gtoppo the74million.org/article/cog…
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And according to the study, five years later, nearly 90% of those who undermatch are still underemployed. This provides school districts and states with a tremendous opportunity to recruit talented young people into the teaching ranks.
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In the space of 48 hours HHS Secretary RFK Jr has announced he will prioritise wearable "wellness" trackers which have no proven health benefits, and slash funding for vaccines which have saved tens of millions of lives globally
He's a dangerous fraud.
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Reminder
RFK Jr claimed the HPV vaccine causes cancer when in fact it prevents it
It's so effective that cervical cancer is on the way to being ELIMINATED in countries with high HPV vaccine uptake.
RFK Jr is against that.
Robert Rogers retweeted
Hodgkin’s lymphoma had a 56% survival in the 1970s.
Today, survival rate is 87%.
Thanks to:
Chemotherapies
Scientific research
Biopharmaceutical therapies
Evidence-based medicine
Not:
"Alternative" treatments
Wellness grifting
Defunding research
Undermining oncologists
1/
Robert Rogers retweeted
2025 STAAR results were released yesterday. The @FortWorthReport and @MatthewSgroi1 dive into the results and which local school systems had the biggest improvements and which systems declined. buff.ly/pdsZbUL
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Have you seen a baby have a seizure from meningitis? I have.
Have you seen a baby die from whooping cough? I have.
Have you seen a baby intubated with epiglottis? I have.
Thanks to RFK Jr, you may soon see these things as well as the US wipes away decades of medical progress.
Fantastic literacy conference hosted by @Region10ESC today. Fortunate to have the opportunity to share information about @ReadingLeagueTX and to meet/reconnect with leaders in the field. @MrZachG @LindsayKemeny @KJWinEducation @NancyYoung_ @literacypodcast and others.
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Here we go
RFK Jr has fired the entire advisory committee on vaccines
He will pack it with his anti vaccine pseudoscientists
His plan to destroy the entire vaccine program has begun
A dangerous lunatic.
RFK Jr has fired all 17 members of CDC’s Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices. The US now has no CDC director and no ACIP. Control of US vaccines is concentrated in the office of an HHS Sec who doesn’t believe any vaccine is safe and effective. wsj.com/opinion/rfk-jr-hhs-m…
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The "historic investment" for Texas public schools is like if you didn't pay your rent or make mortgage payments for 6 years, then wrote a huge check and said "This is the most I've ever given you by far!" #TxLege
new state dollars for texas public schools will only start to help catch them up : bit.ly/3ZSrEnl
