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A conservative group gets local press with a report faulting local ed. schools for training teachers to teach kids to read with anything other than explicit phonics instruction. My brief response in the Boston Globe: [screenshot of letter]
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Yet another study challenging the conventional wisdom that doing homework is beneficial: ow.ly/ETMEk - in this case, even for older students & even with foreign languages. Here, the more time that students spent on HW, the poorer their results on all achievmt measures
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This study confirms that high school grades predict college grades better than tests (like the SAT or ACT) do, but the real story here is that 80-90% of the variance in college grades isn't predicted by either grades OR tests: goo.gl/w2Djpv
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The US Border Patrol puts kids in cages for doing this…
An 11-year-old boy is being praised for his fearlessness after he traveled 620 miles alone to flee Ukraine — carrying nothing but a passport, plastic bag and a relative's phone number scrawled on his hand.
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A new 5-year longitudinal German study of adolescents provides more evidence of the harms of a controlling style of parenting and the benefits of "acknowledgment of the child’s perspective, encouragement of child-initiated activities, and warmth": is.gd/UcgySI
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This teacher finally stopped using rubrics after realizing that trying to tweak them was a fool's errand. Once she looked at how "students as *people* interact with them," she saw that rubrics inherently "make education less human": is.gd/fESSda
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It shouldn't be necessary to point this out, but the benefits of project-based learning will be extremely limited if the teacher, rather than the students, designs the projects. Here’s one example of doing it right: ow.ly/sTnio
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Years ago I was unconvinced by sweeping claims about raising kids' self-esteem but even more troubled by the arguments of most self-esteem critics: is.gd/OSbdn7. In a thoughtful essay, @cblack__ takes a similar stance on "learning styles": is.gd/GaMAPu
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Teach kids principles AND procedures in math? Nope. This study found that the destructive effects of step-by-step direct instruction aren't offset by adding richer content: is.gd/wMYgY9.
(Larger point: In education it matters what we DON'T do: is.gd/hWYj8F)
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Resilience is a useful capability to have, sure, but efforts to promote it in kids often distract us from efforts to identify and challenge the harmful practices (or policies) that *require* resilience
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Legendary civil rights activist and educator Bob Moses (1935-2021) believed that math, if taught right, could be a path to liberation. Have a look at this 2001 interview: is.gd/cGBWQN. (The Algebra Project is at algebra.org.)
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Thanks to a case of laryngitis, a teacher accidentally creates a student-centered classroom. Worth a read: goo.gl/6pGqRo
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We are here in Echo Park in solidarity with our unhoused neighbors.
Public space for public good. #EchoParkRiseUp
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What matters isn’t how well a teacher holds students’ attention; it's whether a teacher knows enough about how learning happens to stop being the center of attention.
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Mindfulness training for teens: A "carefully-controlled investigation...showed no benefits for any measure, and indicated an adverse effect for some participants."
Uh-oh. Does this mean we have to actually address systemic causes of anxiety & depression? goo.gl/a7nZi1
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“There has never been a more exciting time for nonfiction — we’re seeing visionary new directors emerge and streaming has given documentary films wide new global audiences,” said Bryn Mooser, co-founder of Documentary+ and CEO of XTR.
deadline.com/2021/01/non-fic…
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Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine the world anew. This one is is a portal between one world and the next. We can walk through dragging our prejudice and hatred, or we can walk through ready to imagine a new world.- Arundhati Roy
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Claims of "learning loss" (or "slide") when kids aren't in school tend to be repeated uncritically by reporters, alarming parents. My take on this issue in an article published today in the Boston Globe: is.gd/nlrWYc