Nice piece from Laurence Holt, reminding us that an intervention that is "effective" but that only a small percentage of teachers or students want to do or can do, is not effective. www.educationnext.org/5-percent-pr...
Education Next reports on sizable effects of knowledge curriculum on reading comprehension www.educationnext.org/how-building...
As more schools require the SAT or ACT , I'm reposting this blog post from two years ago, in which I (very briefly) argue that's a good idea, and consider at greater length why the GRE should not be required for graduate admissions www.danielwillingham.com/daniel-willi...
"Write down a phrase you find abhorrent, then spend 10 minutes writing a monologue in the first person that’s spoken by a fictitious character who makes the upsetting statement. In recent years openness to this exercise has shrunk to a pinprick." www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/o...
Surge pricing for answering student emails as we approach the midterm...
The WordleBot will score your guesses for "skill" and "luck." It should also score guesses for "bravery." If I guess "sylph" just for the hell of it, I want acknowledgement.
When I read this headline I thought it meant Apple already had a sports app and was no longer supporting it. Can we go back to saying apps, podcasts, etc. are "released" rather than "dropped?" Life is complicated enough without contronyms. @morningbrew-mirror.bsky.social
The latest data are in on post-pandemic achievement in math and ELA--some progress, very uneven, a long way to go. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Interesting correlation: small study shows that poor adult readers are slower to disengage attention prior to attention shifts link.springer.com/article/10.3...
