I spend a lot of time thinking how 'using the latest science to help all kids learn as much as they can, especially those from disadvantage who need public school the most' isn't considered progressive.

This with Anna Stokke and Tom Loveless was so good. The Nat'l Math Advisory Panel gathered tons of experimental evidence on what works in math, nobody pays any attention to it.

“We get interested in what we get good at,” to quote Bruner’s simple statement of a central truth.

Another great piece from Holly Korbey on the policy translation and implementation on the science of reading

open.substack.com/pub/hollykorbe…

One way or another kids are going to learn. About their community, their country, their world, their place in it and what’s expected of them.

The issue is not if they’re learning. It’s whether or not we’re intentional about it.

The longer I do this reporting, the more I think that foundational skills are just the key to... everything.

Was just in a regular district in TN where Ts w/centralized curriculum said the same thing. They told me they worked less on weekends, could talk w/teachers in the connecting grades, b/c all using the same thing. They said kids are learning more, sooner in the year.

Holly Korbey Used to ask “would I want to be a student in my class?” (the answer wasn’t always yes). Now I ask “will I want my daughter to be a student in my class?” It’s really easy, as a teacher, to lose sight of what’s at stake.

Essential reading from Nic Garcia from 2022: 'The heart of most of our coverage was a simple question: Are the kids learning?'--and the heart of my reporting, too. There is no more important education story.

Holly Korbey When you have twins, you can see the huge difference between what different teachers teach and what the kids learn.

I’m giving a free webinar tonight to help parents decipher the disability support system. It shouldn’t be so hard.

Speaking as a parent, if you honestly believe that making sure teachers have decent curriculum is evil, then your own kids aren't in public schools. Once you see what kids learn, and how widely it varies from classroom to classroom in the same building, you can never unsee it.

My understanding is that by any measure single-digit addition is the most important foundational knowledge for all of k-12 math.

Parents opposing changes to the California Math Framework formed an advocacy group. Now Save Math is expanding, pushing for changes to math instruction. Read my interview with leader Mike Malione here: hollykorbey.substack.com/p/can-parents-…

.Carl Hendrick’s keynote at researchED US was astoundingly good.

I caught most of it on video…

Sorry that it’s in Tweetable chunks, but I promise that it’s worth the headache of pressing Play a few times.

What is learning, Carl asks?

Good to know, but I'd be happier if we had the same frequency and depth of information about what's it like to be a student.

What's It Like To Be a Teacher in America Today? | Pew Research Center pewresearch.org/social-trends/…

I am unapologetically in favor of books. Great ones. Read together in class.

educationnext.org/why-are-books-…

Really wish I was there today!

hollykorbey.substack.com/p/on-not-getti…

New episode released this week interviewing Dr. Kimberly Berens!

educationrickshaw.com/2024/04/03/s31…