Alphabet books teach reading wrong. They’re based on an outdated understanding of English and have barely changed in the last 500 years. So we wrote one that does it right, and we’ve made it available for free. (link in next tweet) Here’s what makes ours different.

My meeting with E D Hirsch today. Author of ‘The Schools We Need, and Why We Don’t Have Them’. This book has had huge influence on education reform in England between 2010 and 2024. Thank you, Don. ⁦Core Knowledge Foundation⁩

I’ve never worked in a school with a well-functioning special ed department. I know there are people who have, but I assume there are at least as many of me as there are of them, and this is a case where data means little because there are multiple incentives to lie.

Michele

I’m sure there were a few that were good reads (maybe some could exist just as stories) but they weren’t great for a reader learning to decode (and off the decoding practice shelves for those).

This is a lovely story and shows that powerful intervention can have effects that go far beyond the teaching content.

I’m 54-years-young today, and my birthday wish is wild: I want every single one of you who is worried about kids’ plummeting reading scores to listen to the TikTok and share this post like it’s the last slice of cake at my party! 🎉 Let’s 'yeet' the reading crisis out of

If the student hasn’t learned, the teacher hasn’t taught. - Zig Engelmann

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“I have never seen a parent be wrong about their child’s reading struggle.”

This is why schools that don’t invest heavily in making sure their children are reading at grade level expectations by the time they exit 1st grade and instead pour their resources in later grades in an attempt to catch them up are not wisely investing their time, money or

This is a big problem with choral response. The kids who don’t know the answer can simply mouth a response and the teacher is none the wiser. I can’t see a use for it unless I knew every kid knew the answer and then we were just practising in order to imbed it.

Sean Morrisey I would add this one.

Excellent article. Great read. 📖 For chemist Kris Hansen, 3M was a family affair; her father was a creator of the company’s N95 face masks. Yet, after she found 3M’s forever chemicals in human blood, the company repeatedly doubted her work and stopped her research on the

"X hasn't got this kid decoding well, so let's try Y" is the thought process of a school that doesn't really understand what it's doing. >>