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There is a lot of excitement at the moment about using AI to personalise learning resources, but I am not convinced. Yes, it is true many students are interested in Taylor Swift & Lionel Messi more than electricity, algebra or verbs. That does not mean we can teach electricity, algebra and verbs through the medium of Swift & Messi. substack.nomoremarking.com/p…

The biggest challenge in education isn’t discovering what works. It’s consistently doing what we already know works. Learning science isn’t new. Cognitive psychology isn’t new. Knowledge-rich curriculum isn’t new. Implementation matters. coreknowledge.org/ai-encode-…

Looking forward to this. Bookmarked as a weekend listen 🎧

Should we measure education progress by "growth" in test scores or how many students are "proficient"? Neither is perfect alone--but too much focus on growth can obscure continuing inequities. Which is what has happened in DC. More in my new post: nataliewexler.substack.com/p…

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English teachers struggling to exemplify irony, I got your backs

A nice description of why and how a teacher moved from running records to assessments that are more consistent with the science by @readingwithmsif - readingwithmrsif.com/blog/an… @ILAToday @NCILiteracy @UFLiteracy @reading_league @ReadingForum_Ed

🎙️ New episode drops tomorrow! It's the first of a two-part Chalk & Talk mailbag special with Jonathan Regino @JRED530 We answer questions from teachers and parents on math resources, explicit instruction, calculators in IEPs, supporting advanced learners, and more. 📚 #ChalkandTalk #Education #MathEducation #LearningScience #PodcastTeaser

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But evidence was never the main obstacle. The obstacles are ideological, professional, structural, and political. Many are deeply embedded in the culture of American education. Some are embedded in American society itself. And to be brutally frank, many obstacles to knowledge-rich education are not viewed as obstacles at all: They are intellectual and even moral commitments that many school leaders and education advocates believe more important to defend and protect than knowledge-rich curriculum. Brilliant from @rpondiscio thenext30years.substack.com/…

nctq.org/wp-content/uploads/… Today's @NCTQ report on teacher prep programs in Pennsylvania reveals some very damning stats! 40 (!!) Ed schools refused to answer the survey, including by far the largest -- Penn State -- and most well known -- Penn! Penn charges $65,000 for a one year alt cert where students are right in Philly classrooms. Without good prep! Two HBCUs, Lincoln and Cheyney, got Fs for not incorporating the 5 pillars of reading. West Chester University got an F. Widener's grad school got an F. @Parents4RJ Universities who wouldn't say: Alvernia University – UG – Private Arcadia University – UG – Private Cairn University – UG – Private Cedar Crest College – G – Private DeSales University – UG – Private Drexel University – UG – Private Drexel University – G – Private Duquesne University – UG – Private Elizabethtown College – UG – Private Gwynedd Mercy University – UG – Private Holy Family University – UG – Private Holy Family University – G – Private Immaculata University – UG – Private King's College – UG – Private La Salle University – UG – Private Lebanon Valley College – UG – Private Marywood University – UG – Private Mercyhurst University – UG – Private Messiah University – UG – Private Misericordia University – UG – Private Moravian University – UG – Private Neumann University – UG – Private Pennsylvania State University – UG – Public Pennsylvania State University - Harrisburg – UG – Public Point Park University – UG – Private Robert Morris University – UG – Private Saint Joseph's University – UG – Private Saint Vincent College – UG – Private Seton Hill University – UG – Private Susquehanna University – UG – Private Temple University – UG – Public Temple University – G – Public University of Pennsylvania – G – Private University of Pittsburgh – G – Public University of Pittsburgh at Bradford – UG – Public University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown – UG – Public Waynesburg University – UG – Private Westminster College – UG – Private Wilson College – UG – Private York College of Pennsylvania – UG – Private ALL of these programs charge too much, leaving would be teachers with too much debt, and districts with tuition reimbursement and salary increases they can't afford, while still getting teachers not prepped well to teach. No wonder 52.6% of PA fourth graders were not proficient on the 2025 reading PSSAs.

An ideology is a system of abstract ideas in which theory determines evidence rather than vice-versa. It always involves a pseudo-religious adherence to some secular dogma. It is prevalent on both the political left (e.g. Marxism, the French Revolution and modern Woke ideology, in which gender and race are considered culturally constructed and therefore changeable) as well as the right (e.g. Randian Objectivism, where everything is interpreted according to rationalist capitalist ideology). One of the places in which it is particularly prevalent is in university education departments where constructivism is the dominant ideology and results in the rejection of the idea that students can learn passively under systems like Direct Instruction and in the dogma that a teacher shouldn't be in front of the classroom directing the learning. The ideology is so strong that they actively reject the findings of Project Follow Through, the largest study ever done on education, which supports directive teaching. This and others studies and meta-studies are irrelevant to progressives because they conflict with the inviolate dogmas of their ideology.

Aspiring teachers need to practice what they learn. @NCTQ's new report found 1 in 5 prep programs offers zero practice in any of the 5 components of scientifically based reading instruction - not to mention Language Development & Writing. teacherquality.nctq.org/revi…

Join me at the Global Math Intervention Summit (Aug. 6–8, 2026)! My session, “Using the Learning Hierarchy to Guide Math Intervention,” will explore how the Learning Hierarchy can be used to develop math intervention! Register free here: resources.madeformath.com/gl…

Sending a student to Berkeley for calculus when they don’t understand fractions is academic malpractice. And it's cruel.