“Carnegie units are bedrock of schling today & have infiltrated every aspect of school - need to change. We also need to reimagine learning experiences & our signaling systems so they’re designed w things that make a diff to young people.” Tim Knowles Carnegiesummit24

Nick Covington Ira Socol - available on threads, bluesky, medium Chris and Nick are definitely the dynamic duo in today’s edu-ecosystem… their EIR grant is pretty special …

'every day, millions of kids go to schools not just unwelcoming and unaccommodating but fully hostile. Wealthy and powerful parents can solve that — bringing legal pressure and paying for private schools — but the children of the powerless are trapped' irasocol.medium.com/designed-to-fa…

Billy Krakower A3 creating a community that provides the 4As: acceptance, access, attention,abundance to each learner medium.com/age-of-awarene… by Ira Socol - available on threads, bluesky, medium #satchat

'Why? Because whether it is genetic or cultural — nature or nurture — or both, as it almost always turns out to be, women are better at listening, at observing, at accepting new information, than “Western” men.' medium.com/@irasocol/when…

If your state is enacting new reading legislation and banning practices such as 3 cueing, you must ask why they are allowing decodable texts, multi-sensory instruction (O-G) and such

This is about ideology and marketing, not science

After decades of being a loyal Ford Motor Company fan, buyer, and shareholder, my experience in 2024 indicates that I'll never buy from or recommend the company to anyone again. If they're interested why? (which they're not) they can ask customer service or their chairman's office.

'History can be a cautionary tale, a theory of human progress, or a straight jacket that stops us from moving.
'Don’t put on that straight jacket.' irasocol.medium.com/designed-to-fa…

'every day, millions of kids go to schools not just unwelcoming and unaccommodating but fully hostile. Wealthy and powerful parents can solve that — bringing legal pressure and paying for private schools — but the children of the powerless are trapped' irasocol.medium.com/designed-to-fa…

'Referring to the Carnegie Endowment Unit in that 1954 report — 70 yrs ago — as “the concept of serving time in the classroom,” the authors admit that the unit has “fallacies.” “[T]he diploma means only that a pupil has attended high school for four years”irasocol.medium.com/designed-to-fa…

'This idea that children won’t learn without outside rewards and penalties, or in the debased jargon of the behaviorists, “positive and negative reinforcements,” usually becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy' - John Holt irasocol.medium.com/designed-to-fa…

'A failing educational system benefits those who currently have wealth and power. They don’t want to share either of those things, nor do they want their children to have to compete with others who may have much more talent, creativity, and ambition.' irasocol.medium.com/designed-to-fa…

'The accompanying industrialized model of mass education was created to consign non-compliant students, and those not meeting the standards of the white and wealthy, to the lowest-paying jobs in society.' medium.com/teachers-on-fi…

'schools filled with lockstep curriculum, segregation by born-on-date and race and social class, rigid beliefs about behavior and dress, opportunities only offered to some, and the belief that some children are inferior to others.' medium.com/teachers-on-fi…

'And brutal it is. We cannot really understand why American schools use age-based grades and standardized tests, and why two-thirds of students do badly — consistently — unless we understand why Barnard and his successors built the system they did' medium.com/teachers-on-fi…

Thank you Mary Ann Reilly

.Joseph Pizzo Scott McLeod Dr. Justin Bathon New American History Jayson Richardson Dave Quinn Garreth Heidt Jal Mehta Katie Martin Jody Britten, PhD Chris Jackson Donna Miller Fry Alec couros Gary Stager - New Invent To Learn Book! Sylvia LibowMartinez this - pt3 in the series by Ira Socol - available on threads, bluesky, medium

'Like so many elites across history, Socrates saw change as a threat to his status...' irasocol.medium.com/designed-to-fa…

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'If the colonial children could leverage what they bring to school... find their own path to success rather than stumbling along in another’s wake, well, they might not just compete; they might come out on top. This is what scares those at the top.' irasocol.medium.com/designed-to-fa…