Here's to letting Ss know you're growing right along with them. 🪴

New Zealand: "Hey Canada, can I copy your homework." Canada: "Sure, just change it a bit so it isn't obvious."

Scientists put kids through 100 hours of reading, then scanned their brains. New wiring had physically grown inside the language regions. Communication between brain areas sped up by a factor of 10. Kids who didn't read showed zero change. That was a 2009 Carnegie Mellon study.

Part 2. Yale tracked 3,635 people over the age of 50 for 12 years. People who read books for more than 3.5 hours a week lived 23 months longer than people who didn’t read at all. A 20% drop in mortality risk. From sitting on a couch with a book. They controlled for age, sex,

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Back in teacher's college, we learned that overly easy tests insult students and make them lose respect for the teacher: "You think we aren't capable of more? Well then your class must be a joke."

64% of unmarried young women in Japan don't want children, exceeding men for 1st time: poll - The Mainichi share.google/OsMEE7XgRy7bbq…

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Dream big. Stay curious. The world belongs to people who ask questions, try new things, and believe there is something special inside them waiting to be discovered. Every student has their own kind of awesome, a talent, a passion, a way of thinking that is uniquely theirs.

Students who took notes by hand scored ~28% higher on conceptual questions than laptop note-takers. Writing forces your brain to process and compress ideas instead of copying them.

Sri Lanka declares all Wednesdays off to conserve energy (NB: other Asian countries' measures also listed in article) share.google/QxCQprkiHcS7ET…

Happy St. Patrick's Day 🍀 Did you know St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was NOT Irish? He was born in Scotland and captured by Irish pirates! #WeAreLDCSB

Hot take: eliminate AP classes and credits entirely. Instead, teens that want college credit should have free access to dual enrollment programs under their state university system to earn college credit via college classes. AP test incentives are misaligned in the worst way:

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Which demographics of Canadians are leaving Canada? >67% of the are 20-44 year olds. >3x more likely to be in Sciences than avg population. >31.1% have a masters degree. >61.4% left to the US. In other words, it's Canada's youngest, most talented and educated population.

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Ontario mandated e-learning to expand course options. Some worry it's being used to boost marks cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

B-flation: Good Grades (Mostly Bs or Better) sideline parents by giving them a false sense of security. Ground-breaking research from Bibb Hubbard LearningHeroes Listen to Fordham Institute Show podcast with Michael Petrilli #gradeinflation educationgadflyshow.substack.com/p/too-many-as-…