Planting trees is the most effective and cheapest way to fight climate change, a new study says. Swiss scientists say a trillion or more trees could reduce CO2 in the atmosphere by 25%.

“Giving students iPads or allowing them to film homework assignments on YouTube prepares them for a high-tech economy about as much as playing with Hotwheels would prepare them to thrive as automechanics.” 🔥🔥 🔥 from Cal Newport

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"Research shows that dysfluency causes as much as 40% of the variance in students who pass tests vs those who fail. This is true for every testing grade." achievethecore.org/page/3186/a-sh…

SUDDENLY DYING TO TEACH GENRE AGAIN

RIP Main Idea 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

Nor will just “disappearing” the SHSAT Bill de Blasio

Today is #WrongfulConvictionDay. Nearly 2,500 innocent people have been exonerated and freed from prisons since 1983. They served a combined total of more than 22,000 years. 166 of these innocent men and women were freed from death row. I'll share some of their stories today.

Yesterday, I asked St. Charles Borromeo 4th graders in Harlem what they were up to: They told me about William the Conqueror and how he defeated the Saxons in 1066 at Hastings. #CurriculumMatters is for real. So impressive to see it in action. #ckla Partnership 2

“Availability isn’t usage, and usage ‘in some fashion’ isn’t going to move the needle on student outcomes.”

Hi friends! Can you pls like and retweet! UPS has 3 boxes of books for our students to read while school is closed. UPS has been skipping delivery to our school, even though staff are there and we have signs for deliveried. Pls be heroes & help our kids read!

This is what good priorities look like Dan Faas

I once had a plan to road trip to Monroeville, Alabama and visit Harper Lee in her nursing home. I am only now realizing that sort of thing might be frowned upon.

And shit just changed. Cops charge the crowd, beating, arresting. Here’s the moment.

The NYPD’s budget is $6,000,000,000 That’s more than the city spends on health, homelessness, youth development and workforce development combined.

Happy Birthday, Anne. I always loved reading your diary with my students.

I feel this.

**It's happening** rachael dengler