#a2schoolboard meeting: A parent asks that to save money, please eliminate all Chromebooks and apps. Huge applause from teachers and parents. It won't save the budget, but it clearly shows how people really feel about the headlong rush into digital public schools.

Four years ago, schools were starting to reopen in Denmark — without masks. Many American children — in places like San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Clayton County, Georgia — would have to wait another year to return to their classrooms.

I was searching for something and came across this June 2020 DW reporting about reopening Norwegian schools, which began four years ago in April 2020. It is remarkable the extent to which the coronavirus discourse was fundamentally different in Scandinavia. Quotes follow 👇

As a parent who would really like to limit my kids' time on screens, I'm more than a little annoyed with schools' overreliance on them.

There was 1 point in my conversation w/Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH on On Point that I wanted to discuss: It's not true that the Feb 2021 CDC reopening guidelines under the Biden admin facilitated school reopening. 90% of the country was in "red" and, per CDC, shouldn't open full time🧵

A record 7.5 million students accessed special-education services in U.S. schools as of 2022-2023, including children with autism, speech impairments and ADHD. That is 15.2% of the public-school student population, up from less than 13% a decade earlier. wsj.com/us-news/educat…

Why is Old Navy still selling children’s masks? Embarrassing. oldnavy.gap.com/browse/product…

Listen to Adam Cifu John Mandrola, MD and I discuss The aborted RCT of Impella Mammography for women in their 40s How Medical School Fails Students On the latest Sensible Medicine video podcast (also in audio format) open.substack.com/pub/sensibleme…

The opening paragraph might be the most important part: “Studies show that students of all ages, from elementary school to college, tend to absorb more when they’re reading on paper rather than screens. The advantage for paper is a small one, but it’s been replicated in dozens

.Lloyd Doggett is the first congressional Democrat to publicly ask the president to drop out after last week's dismal debate performance against former President Donald Trump.

< primal scream >

In the United States a handful of journalists at the The New York Times worked to stoke fear that COVID was a risk to children, and children a risk to adults. A new empirical analysis is coming soon.

Why are our screen addicted children being taught on yet more screens? A webinar featuring the great Jonathan Haidt (“The Anxious Generation), the Swedish edu minister, experts and me youtu.be/P_GY-cW4-Dc?fe… via YouTube

Measures of cognitive functioning (e.g., working memory, executive functioning, processing speed) do not differentiate LD from non LD. The only thing that did differentiate was achievement!! Amanda VanDerHeyden Council for Exceptional Children National Association of School Psychologists Learning Disability Today International Dyslexia Association tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

NAEP declines are "particularly bad news for Democrats, not just politically, but existentially in my opinion. Their core ideas about education are not holding up real well to real world data or public opinion. In fact, this data flies in the face of key Democratic/Progressive

Public health has lost public trust. They need to earn it back. There are several gems from today's NYT op-ed by Carrie McKean, but this passage sums it up well I think. (link at end of thread)

Major excerpt from my forthcoming book, An Abundance of Caution. Ultimately, this book is not about the pandemic. It is about the failure of the expert class. Link in reply.

“I want to be really clear on this… This wasn’t a trade off that kids did. This was only harm, zero benefit.” David Zweig on school closures with Lee Fang at a launch party in Berkeley for his book, An Abundance of Caution.

HB 1481 led by Caroline Fairly for Texas would create "bell to bell" distraction and cell phone free schools across the great state of Texas.  Thrilled to see the momentum for this important bill building in the Texas Senate Education Committee. Thank you for your work on behalf of Texas'

I agree, this is a problem. We're working on this too, e.g., afterbabel.com/p/the-edtech-r…