If you have wondered why the "science of" reformers and marketers attack Freire ... historyisaweapon.com/defcon2…

“It makes me furious,” said Pace, a member of Schools Beyond Screens. “My daughter went to middle school and was sent home with a screen addiction in her backpack.” abcnews.com/Technology/wireS…

Arne Duncan selling Trump’s federal school voucher plan in Massachusetts today. A lil awkward since Arizona Senator Mark Kelly just filed a bill calling for a repeal of the program he says will be a disaster for public schools & the kids who depend on them

I'm partnering with Scholastic to give $200k to teachers ($200 to 1,000 teachers)! The link to enter is here: bit.ly/4sVnXK0 . The website for entries will close the last day of Teacher Appreciation Week: 5/8/26. What are you waiting for? Go enter!

If Hungarian strongman Victor Orban goes down today, education will be a big part of the story. Turns out that voters really don't like the combo of starving schools of resources while turning them into propoganda tools. Sound familiar?

If the Texas GOP loses its grip on the legislature there'll be lots of reasons. But a big & underappreciated one is school vouchers -- deeply unpopular w/ Dems and many conservatives. Irony here is that school choice lobby got its big prize but state may turn blue(r) as a result

Education reform is essentially political “Science of” reformers do not want only policy and practice grounded in scientific evidence They want their stories and beliefs to drive policy and practice They balk at any evidence contradicting their stories/beliefs

Did States Blow 10s of Millions on Reading Instruction that Doesn’t Work?: The Full Story open.substack.com/pub/paulth…

The 'Southern Surge' states remain the absolute worst places for kids--by design. I wrote about what so many of the Mississippi takes keep missing (also by design) open.substack.com/pub/educat…

On Miracles in Mississippi schoolfinance101.com/2026/02…

Big Lies of Education: Series substack.com/@paulthomas7011…

So much for focusing on the bad hombres…

It is so blatant now. Yet they still don’t get it. That even their own racism was created for them by the wealthy to keep them poor. Will they ever get it?

Speak up against the gutting of the Department of Education!! Open the link and there's a form that will be emailed to your Congressperson and Senators. Sent by the Network for Public Education Action! actionnetwork.org/letters/st…

Nancy Flanagan takes a look at the attendance problem bothering public and charter school policy observers. networkforpubliceducation.or… #EducationMatters

Media Manufactured Education Crisis? You Can Count on It radicalscholarship.com/2025/… via @plthomasEdD

From what we can tell Mamdani walked into that office, stood there quietly, spoke when spoken to, and allowed Donald Trump to basically destroy any opportunity that the Republicans planned on using moving forward. x.com/Acyn/status/1991977920… He admitted he was a fascist, and then on top of it told everybody that Mamdani was nothing like the stuff that was said about him during the campaign. Is he a Jihadist? “ no I don’t think so” This might be the simplest and easiest takedown of Donald Trump since he became president. I mean, the press conference wrote itself.

So proud of our close friend Gigi Cervantes in taking a bold stand of conscience against the Christian Nationalism (neither Christian nor American) of @GregAbbott_TX's & @danpatrick's Ten Commandments bill. #txlege #txed Defeat this in #2026Elections! apnews.com/article/ten-comma…

Doing what's best for the kids is always the right choice, even if it costs you your job. When your results are 3x better than Mike Miles' "prison curriculum," that's just the cherry on top. 🍒 #EducationMatters #StandUpForKids

How many opportunities for good teaching are lost every day due to bad curriculum? It's been 3 years since the changeover and I'm still finding my way back to what works