Lovely to meet so many independent and charter school leaders in #Alberta yesterday! Their stories of increasing access to education for low-SES and special needs students, innovative pedagogical approach and community-building initiative were so inspiring!

New paper from Norway: Banning smartphones in school

- significantly decreased doctors visits for psychological symptoms and diseases among girls
- reduced bullying among both genders
- improved girls’ GPA and attendance rates
- largest effect sizes were among the poorest kids

It is absolutely not too late to put the genie back in the bottle on this one.

“Star says the ‘liberties’ Boaler takes are common in the field [of education research].”

Not that it isn’t true, but man, what an indictment of the entire field this defense of Jo Boaler is

BCE/CE is just as Christonormative as BC/AD; It's just less honest about it.

Critical support to whoever made this and decided to skip Toronto in favour of Moosonee and Port Radium on their Canadian lines. (A good choice imho).

This is the prairie crocus, a drought-tolerant early spring source of nectar for pollinators that can grow in almost every setting we currently have lawns. (The answer is yes).

Once in a while I think about leaving this site and then remember that it occasionally produces absolute gold like this

There was a spectacular moment from one of the recent JOE interviews when this old working-class bloke referenced the Magna Carta (in a letter he wrote to six House of Lords peers) and quoted the Bill of Rights from memory. True salt of the earth Englishman.

For a better piece on this issue, check out Eric Kaufmann, whose research is downplayed by the CBC.

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This is surprising coming from Jason Markusoff, an 'objective' 'journalist' for a 'nonpartisan' 'public' 'news' organization.

It's crazy that the word 'balance' is in scare quotes in this headline, and even worse that these findings are buried behind links to other pieces.

‘A Unesco report on technology in education last year found there was “little robust evidence on digital technology’s added value to education”….

Unesco noted that a great deal of evidence on technology education comes from those trying to sell it.’

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