“Personality, character, is more than subject-matter. Not knowledge or information, but self-realization is the goal. To possess all of the knowledge in the world and lose one’s own self is as awful a fate in education as it is in religion.” The Child and the curriculum.

David W David, thanks for asking. The solution is to stop believing the old system works. It doesn’t. Even the most “educated” will find much of what they learned to be of little use in an AI world. This what is the human value? Curiosity and creativity and the synthesis of the known

We must give them space. Each child develops on their own timeline. Each kid has their own journey. They don’t need pressure from you. They need love and patience. They need understanding. They need support. They need encouragement. They need belief. Give it to them.

A boys' school makes boy-friendly changes and gets great results! Some are as simple as opening the playground for 20 minutes before school starts. They drew on Let Grow for our "play club" program edweek.org/leadership/wha…

Chess prodigy Josh Waitzkin developed a process to achieve peak performance in any craft or career. He’s applied it to the world of investing, professional sports, science and more. The MIQ Process. It is not a quick fix, but rather a rewiring of your default settings.

Important - the destruction of ED and Census data has begun, or at least appears to have begun. Critical resources no longer available census.gov/data/tables/20…

Not only boys, but everyone, learns best from authentic, real-world, experiential learning.

When the waves show up, so does Kelly Slater Kelly's booked himself a ticket to Finals Day! rob h #PipePro is LIVE.

States Attorneys General are suing to end Section 504 - the ONLY protection for kids with dyslexia! Tell them #dontmesswithdyslex Decoding Dyslexia TX Decoding Dyslexia AL Decoding Dyslexia GA Decoding Dyslexia Iowa Decoding Dyslexia Kansas Decoding Dyslexia LA Decoding Dyslexia South Carolina International Dyslexia Association not dyslexia the thing stop tagging me The Reading League Indiana The Reading League FL The Reading League South Carolina

It’s controversial because it doesn’t work, and has lots of unintended consequences. Merit pay has been tried for decades, with nothing to show for it. Feel free to look into the research yourself!

Leaves reflect long wavelength light and thereby amplify the positive effects of long wavelength light on mitochondrial function. This is a non-trivial (positive) effect. Roger Seheult, MD on the Huberman Lab podcast out now (full length here X & all other platforms).

I’m getting contacted that peer reviewed published research papers are getting pulled off of PubMed. I’m not trying to cause alarm, but can somebody confirm this? Does anyone know what categories of papers are getting taken down? And what the removal criteria are? HHS.gov NIH ?

As Trump guts the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget. Really think about how twisted this all is.

Did you know? Before IDEA, 1 million students with disabilities were entirely excluded from public schools. Today, 7.5 million students benefit from its protections! #IDEA50 #Inclusion

World University Rank for # of innovation patents 2023: 1) Univ of California 546; 2)MIT 368; 3)Univ of Texas 235. You know where much of the $$$ for the research that produces those patents come from.... Cutting the incubators of innovation is no way to run an economy.

The fact that you can think, the fact that you can read this tweet, the fact that you are able to reason in and out of situations — all of this is what gives you the ability to improve your circumstances and become better.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. #education #teachers

Mother Nature is the best artist!🌊

I’m just glad that our secretary of education has no idea what AI is and called it “A One” multiple times at the largest education conference in the US:

Over the past few decades, the "play" aspect of kindergarten has largely disappeared from classrooms. However, these three teachers explain how they've kept the "fun and play-based" instruction during this stage of formative learning. edweek.org/teaching-learn…