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"Math at home should provide families with more opportunities to actively engage with their children than completing homework assignments." Read NCTM President Latrenda Knighten's full message: nctm.link/XwsMi

With very little explanation, the Education Department abruptly blocked the release of nearly $7 billion set to be distributed on July 1. The money, which Congress already approved, helps support six grant programs, including after-school and summer learning, English-language

If making instructional choices doesn’t involve the content and what it is you want students to learn, then what does it involve? Ready to take notes.

“Public school high-stakes standardized testing is a form of modern-day slavery, and it is designed to continue the proliferation of inequality.” – Jamaal Bowman, former educator

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Hirsch’s warning about “premature polarization” in education debates is crucial, especially on this platform. I’ve fallen into the trap myself, oversimplifying “to the point of caricature.” It’s easy to default to a buzzword-driven ideology of teaching with no room for nuance.

Hari Seldon preached survival through unity. But now in a fractured galaxy, we ask ourselves - are enemies the only allies left?

Keep up the pushback! We could have a much better system of standardized testing.

Overuse and misuse of standardized testing has been a barrier to good instruction. #iTeachMath

Fund the department of education

Looking forward to middle class children getting opportunities to meet working class careers people. Many of which earn as much as and even more than careers requiring eye watering student loads to gain access to. Let’s raise aspirations for all 😉

“Deskilling” is a term used to describe attempts by the underuninformed (and those with other motives) to exert power over the education profession and undermine the range of skills needed for teaching

“It is time and professional collaboration that teachers need, not checklists and requirements to produce bloated, jargon-filled planning documents. There is nothing more soul-destroying than doing something well that should not be done at all.”

Students in Finland study various subjects with structured courses, but in addition, teachers coordinate projects so that the same subject is seen through different disciplines. blogs.worldbank.org/en/education/t…

A smoot is a hole left in a drystone wall for rabbits or other small animals to get through. I see many on my walks but this one (from Ambleside) has to be the most elaborate. A cathedral among smoots!

And Christian’s on the case.

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