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Karen Vaites

@karenvaites

Literacy advocate, curriculum maven, children’s advocate, mom. Founder, Curriculum Insight Project. @curriculumIP

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Ugh, this seems like a mess. OK lowers proficiency standards under the leadership of a fishy state superintendent. I appreciate this reporting from ⁦Linda Jacobson⁩: “Skyrocketing Test Gains in Oklahoma Are Largely Fiction, Experts Say” the74million.org/article/skyroc…

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The importance of language and vocabulary development is even more critical in elementary schools. This study confirms what we all suspected. More screen use, less language use. This is exactly why language and vocabulary are my focus throughout the school day.

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When I see low engagement with threads like this one, I always wonder how much this platform is suppressing its critics. It feels like a pattern in my posts about X or Twitter or whatever we call it here now. 🤔

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Remember the 30M Word Gap and the way people freaked out about it (rightfully so)? Well… handing toddlers tech is basically manufacturing a Word Gap between high-screen time & low-screen time children. Don’t sleep on the part at the end of my thread: 👉 I’m certain that we

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I wonder if I can blame grammar-lite balanced literacy curricula for this apostrophe situation. (I will try not to dunk on you for your political beliefs, but I reserve the right to grammar-shame political posters of both parties.)