Interesting to see 'curricula as reform' lighting up #edutwitter as I'm at Vanderbilt to discuss CA's effort to scale SoR. It had distinctive design features that may have supported real implementation at some scale
Jen Jennings, PhD Morgan Polikoff 🏳️‍🌈 Robert Pondiscio
nytimes.com/2023/12/04/us/…

📢 📢📢We have two new episodes of Sold a Story coming...
The first one drops this Thursday, April 4. 🎧🎧🎧

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CA's early SoR initiative compellingly linked funding & oversight with school-level flexibility to design & own their reforms.

This contrasts with statewide literacy reforms that declare for SoR without serious attention to changing classroom practices (including CA's AB 2222?).

I spoke with Jessica Grose for this The New York Times op-ed that seeks to separate the hyperbole and reality of how #EdTech is changing our children's learning environments.

nytimes.com/2024/03/27/opi…

Heartily seconded! It's deeply important to benchmark this result against the status quo in U.S. schools where far too many decisions are made without any good evidence or an intentional agenda to build such evidence in a manner that's relevant to local contexts.

10 S.F. schools will see Algebra I back in classrooms this fall after long battle sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

Tom Dee Jessica Glenza The Guardian CDC What about looking at daily attendance to help get at how much is coming from high virus periods (i.e. zoom in on the slides below & you see the Nov-Jan elevation, which is not new but may be more pronounced) & how much from taking extra M/F off?

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I spoke with ⁦Jessica Glenza⁩ ⁦⁦The Guardian⁩ about new ⁦CDC⁩ evidence on the contribution of child health to the rise in chronic absenteeism. theguardian.com/education/2024…

The pandemic's multi-faceted, negative effects on education seem substantial and enduring. That makes the curious rise in HS graduation rates all the more provocative.

I appreciated the opportunity to speak with Doug Dowson The Economist for this important story.

We can achieve big wins for our kids and the nation by focusing on core education practices such as effective, early-literacy instruction (nytimes.com/2023/12/04/us/…). Glad to see our work on San Francisco's math reforms mentioned here too.

My favorite quote from Tom Dee, which had to be cut, relates to figuring out how many kids have switched to private school. With the current state of education data, it's tough, even though “we live in a time & place where I know the moment a package has landed on my doorstep.'

In many US cities, the COVID-19 pandemic supercharged the longer-run demographic trends reshaping enrollment in our public schools. Gail Cornwall's excellent reporting gives us a case study of how this is playing out in San Francisco. 👇

California could become the next state mandating a science of reading approach.

In an elementary school that has already embraced the teaching style, every minute counts. Turning students into readers, the principal says, is a 'civil right.'
csmonitor.com/USA/Education/…

1/ We just released a new research brief “Missing Misters: Gender Diversity among Teachers”. Fewer than 1 in 4 teachers are men, and this brief examines their representation across classrooms, race, and place.

Check it out: hi.switchy.io/LHwr

CA judge denies injunction but orders lawsuit challenging district's ban on critical race theory #CRT & policy of #LGBTQ notification to proceed #Temecula Valley Unified Public Counsel CSBA edsource.org/2024/temecula-…

'Teacher training programs don't always use research-backed reading methods'
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