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If you missed the free webinar I put on with Blake Harvard (Blake Harvard) about attention and teacher explanations, the recording is now available: educationrickshaw.com/2025/06/16/max…

Knowledge building through ELA is not enough, you actually need to do a full science and SS curriculum. If your science does not include hands-on activities, it's not complete. If your science only includes hands-on activities, it's also not complete.

The belief that it is somehow bad to manage behaviour in a school is a classic luxury belief. It is likely only held by those who don't work in schools. It is similar to the view that we should defund the police, held by wealthy liberals who don't live in inner cities.

...and almost as much as spending :45 seconds on Twitter.

At the risk of disagreeing with my boss, I don't think it's "unfair to blame schools for misconduct and civic malpractice." Citizen-making was a founding purpose of public education. But it's no longer central to its mission and hasn't been for a very long time.

This is the entire curriculum at Thomas Aquinas College. This is it. No majors. Just a deep dive into the Western intellectual tradition. They consistently turn out the most exceptional graduates I have ever met. This is what a serious undergraduate education looks like.

Delighted that the trailer for season 3 of the Knowledge Matters Podcast, with Doug Lemov, Natalie Wexler and me is now here: bit.ly/KMPs03trailer

Our Big Three crises of competence (in order): 1) journalism/media 2) education 3) politics I rank journalism No. 1 because it creates a permission structure for the others to go unaddressed (education) or get worse (politics).

Memorization needs a rebrand: it's our array of mental furniture.

It's been sobering to learn that elite women athletes are even bigger jackasses than the men.

This is good news.

Scoop for The Free Press State Department employees told to review social media accounts of student visa applicants and search for signs that they “bear hostile attitudes toward our citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles.” thefp.com/p/exclusive-st…

HOORAY FOR THIS We Started Grouping Students by Reading Ability vs. Grade. Here’s What Happened the74million.org/article/we-sta… NAGC Jonathan Plucker Emily Hanford Robert Pondiscio Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform”

Justice Thomas' concurrence in US v. Skrmetti is superb. "States are never required to substitute expert opinion for their legislative judgment, and, when the experts appear to have compromised their credibility, it makes good sense to chart a different course."

Some wag once said, "All of social science is 'Your mother was right.'" I sometimes think all of education is "Your third grade teacher in 1965 knew what she was doing."

And what if it *does* only benefit students in private schools? We socialize the cost of education because we care about the outcome of every child. The public’s investment and interest is in the child’s education, not the provider.

This should surprise absolutely no one.

The other 16.7% could?!?