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How the Other Half Learns: The Case of Tyrone and Adama
I observed in my last piece that Robert Pondiscio’s theory in the excellent How the Other Half Learns is, well, wrong. Success Academy doesn’t cherrypick parents. I came to this conclus…
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Another article on How the Other Half Learns--am I the only one who noticed that Tyrone and Adama get entirely different treatment, and wondered why? @garyrubinstein @toad_spotted
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The worst news from NAEP
Two weeks ago, the U.S. Department of Education released the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Although, as Professor Marty West put it wryly on the Fordham Podcast, at this point it perhaps should be renamed the...
Chris Wallace Accuses Top Republican of ‘Very Badly’ Mischaracterizing Impeachment Testimony
“No, sir, they are career foreign service officers and these are people who worked in the Trump administration,” Wallace snapped back at Scalise.
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute's 2019 Wonkathon
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Understanding Math, and the Zombie Problem
I have been mulling this piece on the evils of explanations for a while. There’s many ways to approach this issue, and I highly recommend the extended discussion at Dan Meyer’s blog, as…
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Pretty sure that all the research she's talking about here, and all the ones that @mpershan mentions in his followup, is in elementary math.
Get to more advanced math, much less research, and it all goes the other way.
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Harris Campaign Manager Facing Calls for Resignation amid Floundering Campaign
Sen. Kamala Harris's campaign manager is facing calls to resign due to her campaign's continued struggles.
Can you have accountability without consequences?
When I read the article in The 74 by the Colorado Education Initiative’s Rebecca Holmes introducing a one-day conference that would bring together educators, families, and students to discuss what school quality is and who decides, I looked at who...
How The Other Half Learns: The Secret Sauce
Once again, all these articles are just discussions of various aspects of Robert Pondiscio’s book, which I highly recommend, even if I disagree with every conclusion he reaches. As I mentio…
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In which I argue that parents are not Success Academy's secret sauce. Although obedience is preferable, right up to the moment they kick your kid out.
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Report: Michigan’s takeover of Detroit schools was ‘a costly mistake’
Rather than solve the district’s structural financial problems, the report says, state officials sought short term fixes.
That (18)70s show
Key Points In an era of political division, economic anxiety, and social divides, a look back to the period from 1873 to 1896 provides useful insight into our current times, both in the long-term political effects of our current cultural upheavals...
Van Jones resigns amid controversy
Obama's environmental adviser resigns early Sunday following fierce criticism from Republicans.
The Not-So-Persuasive Sales Pitch for Impeachment
A hypothetical conversation between a Democrat and a Trump-skeptical conservative
The case for taking Trump’s black outreach seriously
There’s some evidence Democrats have lost ground with black voters.
Sexual Attitudes Among College Students: Similarities Between White, Black, Latinx, and Asian Students - Contexts
Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge social research accessible to general readers.
Phonics Based Direct Instruction
Linguist John McWhorter strongly supports phonics and direct instruction: Now that it’s summer, I have a suggestion for how parents can grant their wee kiddies the magic of reading by Labor Day: Pick up Siegfried Engelmann’s Teach Your Child to Read...
Tories gain 14-point lead after Farage withdraws candidates
Boris Johnson has opened up a 14-point poll lead after Nigel Farage’s decision to pull Brexit Party candidates out of Tory-held seats. A YouGov survey for The Times puts the Conservatives on 42 per...
It's high time for Trump to dump Stephen Miller
Less than a year into Donald Trump's presidency, Republicans came within inches of achieving their immigration dreams with a deal that would build a border wall and more detention facilities while curbing legal immigration and enacting E-Verify.
Stephen Miller’s Affinity for White Nationalism Revealed in Leaked Emails
In the run-up to the 2016 election, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist literature, pushed racist immigration stories and obsessed over the loss of Confederate symbols after Dylann Roof’s murderous rampage,...