Exceptionally grim: 'For the time being, however, the Fifth Circuit’s Mckesson decision remains good law in those three states. And that means that anyone who organizes a political protest within the Fifth Circuit risks catastrophic financial liability.'

If learning is only defined as 'a change in long term memory' that is best assessed with recall of procedural information, then yeah, 'the latest science' is shaped by what is most easily measured.

But that's not the whole picture. 😅

A longitudinal study of 6,200 kids found, 'Curiosity may be an important, yet under-recognized contributor to academic achievement. Fostering curiosity may optimize academic achievement at kindergarten, especially for children with low SES.'

Considering the tens of thousands of cumulative people-hours students spend on state assessments, will any of it even be read by any human at all? 😩

Let’s write and use some LGBTQ+ inclusive decodables and we’ll see how quickly Moms for Liberty stops caring about improving literacy and using evidence based materials.

I think the thing I’m most salty about re: state testing is… I just watched my kids work harder than they’ve ever worked and I will never in my life get to read any of the three pieces of writing they put all of their hearts into. They will all be whittled down to a score.

Holly Korbey I’m not sure what “progressive” means in some of these conversations. I also spend some time thinking about rhetoric used by some that positions only a small slice of research as “the latest science” and undervalues lots of other work being done to help kids learn all they can

Astroturfed groups used concern over virtual schooling in 2020-2021 as cover to manfacture a series of crises to undermine confidence in public in education to institute their reactionary worldview.

If your literacy work aligns you with these groups, please reflect.

Nope.

“Questions of language are basically questions of power.” - Noam Chomsky