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George Coles 🏳️‍🌈 Hang in there George. You’re doing the most important work and the snipers couldn’t do what you do. You’ve got to try things - and god knows it’s hard enough without all the insufferable BS. Solidarity from me.

This is a "logical" but profoundly erroneous take. Children learn to speak relatively naturally because as a species we have been speaking for more than a quarter of a million years. In that time the brain has had time to evolve to facilitate speaking. There are areas of the

Note: this study used a "wait-list" control—half the schools implemented the program in 2016, and half in 2017—so supports causal inferences.

Alpha platform in schools claiming extraordinary accelerated learning on 2 hrs a day AI platform (Rocket Math, Fast Math Pro, Duolingo and a lot of iXL). It's complicated butI feel that this model has legs, intense morning online, teacher-led rest of day astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-…

Many thanks Dan, for this and your key role on the Editorial Board and as an author. And many thanks to Michael Petrilli for being on the Board of Policymakers and Practitioners, helping shape the design of the Live Handbook, and having me on the podcast. Please check them out.

Loved this. Looking forward to episode 4!

Yes, JUST THREE DAYS LEFT! Well, two now...

New from yours truly at my Substack, "The Next 30 Years." Family structure appears to influence student outcomes than anything we can ever do in school. How should we respond to that? thenext30years.substack.com/p/family-struc…

Just re-read @dtwillingham's "When can you trust the experts?" I dipped into it while planning a session at the Learning & the Brain conference in November, but it's so good, I read the whole thing again: authoritative, and a delight to read. It really deserves to be better known!

Rebecca Birch You might find this paper interesting... "Even after learners are made aware of effective learn­ing strategies, they do not automatically endorse or use those strategies." Turns out changing the behavioural habit is the hard part. They need some intervention in order to make the

🛀Use this weekend to relax and catch up on the 3rd season of the #KnowledgeMatters Podcast. 🧠Dylan Wiliam talks w/ Zach Groshell, Daisy Christodoulou and Patrice Bain in Episodes 1+2. Then, in Episode 3, you can hear from Doug Lemov, as he talks fluency!📖 🎧 tinyurl.com/ynnhd8jd

Higher levels of economic literacy seem to be associated with more—rather than less—extreme political (i.e., Republican vs Democrat) views: bit.ly/4kxDhaM ($)

A useful paper on the role of teachers in using research in practice undermines the seriousness of its claims by including the graphic below: bit.ly/44PGrB7. Not quite in the same league as "The bicycle of education" (look it up) but...

Teachers are trained to spot and correct mistakes. Errors are typically treated as signs of confusion, poor preparation, inattentiveness, or worse. But what if making mistakes — when done deliberately — could be an effective tool for learning? kirschnered.nl/2025/07/15/del…

I know that reading is typically regarded as what David Geary terms biologically secondary knowledge, but this may be an unhelpful simplification. Decoding is surely biologically secondary, but other aspects of reading seem to me to involve both primary and secondary knowledge.

Dylan Wiliam oliver caviglioli Zach Groshell There are theories and there are theories. Creationists have attacked evolution by natural selection on the basis that it’s a ‘theory’. It’s worth reading the 4th para of this Stephen Jay Gould essay wise.fau.edu/~tunick/course…

WHOLE BOOKS! I pop into this wonderful podcast episode from Doug Lemov via Knowledge Matters Campaign on the value of reading whole books knowledgematterscampaign.org/post/ep-4-lite…

Dylan Wiliam I tried to untangle some of the biologically primary/secondary nuances in this 2024 blogpost: Refocusing the biologically primary Vs biologically secondary distinction: Oral language can be vulnerable and reading can be resourceful. pamelasnow.blogspot.com/2024/04/refocu…