The Reading League Emily Hanford Joe Biden I respectfully request that our new Secretary of Education is vetted for an understanding of apprenticing teachers and leaders in the #scienceofreading. The war on Covid is science driven. So is the war against illiteracy. #neuhaus #Dyslexia

Curriculum companies!!! We are coming for you if you are not helping our students but just out to make money off their reading deficits. NAACP Literacy: Putting Publishing Companies and Curricula on Blast youtu.be/7k8x-vbTMGM

Rhode Island is a special place. #Priorities Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) Gina Raimondo

The most important story in RI right now. Remind me what the wait list # is for PVD charter schools? Was inching close to 5k families last I checked.

BREAKING: Trump just signed an executive order to fund students directly if their school doesn't reopen for in-person instruction.

If the #publicschool system is okay with ignoring #dyslexia as a learning difference, then the public school system must be okay with 40% of the #prison population having dyslexia. Let that sink in. 🤔#systemchange

Applications are now open for PL providers to apply to become providers of the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) Literacy/Dyslexia Endorsement. Training must provide deep understanding of the Science of Reading/Structured Literacy to meet proficiency reqs of the Right to Read Act.ride.ri.gov/Portals/0/Uplo…

Dismayed parents are THE best literacy advocates. berrinchuda montoya figured out the flaws in how her child was being taught to read this year. Now she’s basically an investigate reporter RE the problematic curriculum. 👀 This video is just 3 days old! 1/

"Unfortunately we are still pushing children and teens through school without teaching them basic reading and writing skills. But we can break this cycle of failure if instead of blaming teachers we make sure they are properly trained," bbc.com/news/amp/stori…

We sure hope Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸 🖇️👩‍🎓📚 Becky Pringle UFT AFT NEA are watching this tweet get absolutely ratio’d. #openschools, everyone is on to the nonsense, from parents to @Ts4OpenSchools.

It's a good question.

We are so proud of our teachers heading back in person this morning!!! #OpenSchools #SaferAtSchool Let us know how it went this evening using the hashtag #Teachers4OpenSchools

Parents (and teachers). Looking for some concrete ways to tell if children are being taught to read based on scientific evidence? And help w/ questions to ask if they're not. Check this out: improvingliteracy.org/brief/route-re…

Summer? Does this comment align w/ Randi’s “summer” catch up plans? Hard pass.

8th Grade Boys in RI...

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My view on schools-- they ought be open in all but rarest instances-was reached from late summer to fall, when I spent considerable time examining the risk of virtual schools to kids vs. the risk of in person schools to kids, teachers, community Here is my journey [thread]