These books have gotten more men back into reading fiction than any other series in recent memory

Every educator needs to keep this Flannery O'Connor gem in a back pocket for the next time a student complains about the relevance or boringness of an older book... “And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste

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TEXAS NEWS: 76% of the 150k+ school voucher applicants were already enrolled in private schools last year. A plurality of that number are from households that make $66k-160k. What's more, the elite schools in San Antonio & Dallas aren't taking vouchers. Full story 👇

I got the chance to ask Greg Abbott about Dylan Baddour's recent reporting on Corpus Christi's water crisis. He doesn't seem happy with CC local leaders: "We can only give them a little time more before the state of Texas has to take over and micromanage that city..." #txlege

Coming to Texas soon! Thanks to Abbott and his daddy Jeff Yass.

Christin Bentley SD-1 SREC Davy Crockett We seem to be hearing a lot of, "You can't trust local .gov but you can trust BIG .gov" Well, a pillar of Conservatism is small government. Handing taxation over to Greg is not small government. It's centralized government. So as conservatives we're saying, "No thank you!"

Public School District Leaders: A Warning. The Texas Education Agency Texas Education Agency is dangling Bluebonnet for free as a curriculum to choose from. Don't do it. It is nothing but scripted lessons. They sent someone from a company called Great Minds. We thought they were there to help.

*In case you doubt they're trying to get those books pulled, here's the actual list of books that Citizens Defending Freedom is trying to get banned from every school in Texas. Ready Player One, Lonesome Dove, Brave New World, Native Son. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

i wish it was longer

Scientists put kids through 100 hours of reading, then scanned their brains. New wiring had physically grown inside the language regions. Communication between brain areas sped up by a factor of 10. Kids who didn't read showed zero change. That was a 2009 Carnegie Mellon study.

Many people who don't work in education are not aware of just how much of ed-tech is just siphoning public money into tech companies who don't even provide functional software. The product doesn't need to work; it just needs to let them hire fewer and less qualified teachers.

One of the most famous and respected school choice experts in the country—Princeton’s Jen Jennings—has been carefully documenting Arizona voucher spending. She’s got a new site up where you can explore it yourself. 1/3

We're all going to make it. The future is bright. Family literacy is back! ❤️

My Highschool baseball coach begged us to watch 20-30 minutes of college/professional baseball a night. I never understood it. Reflecting on it now, I am deeply grateful I did as he asked. It helped me think the game & develop baseball IQ ahead of my age. As I help coaching

Children don't read because their parents don't read. We'll soon be led by an entire generation that has never cracked open a book. Not a single book in the home. This frightens me more than the idea of nuclear threat or a foreign power attacking us. We're imploding from within.

The district’s website has listed 455 books “under review” for most of the school year, w/ 141 books permanently removed so far. But PIRs show the district has actually removed close to 1500. We reported on this last week, & it was picked up by PEN America pen.org/1500-books-ban…

We're expected to believe TexLege had no idea vouchers would go to Islamic Schools when they passed School Choice? Riiight. If you'll buy that I've got some ocean front property in Arizona you'll love. It's right next to Zorro Ranch 😏

Oops, forgot the link. franklinstrong.substack.com/p/new-braunfel…