So, I'm teaching Fahrenheit 451 to 7th graders right now. No screens. They read every night and are required to write 1 note per page assigned. I teach them right off they should look for "what happened" (plot development), or "something we learn about a character" or, if they

Indeed there is not 📖

Start a school; save the world.

I’m a curriculum guy but this thread has it right: school culture eats curriculum’s lunch.

It is possible to agree with people about what constitutes excellent education & disagree with them politically. This is something that the education community has failed to grasp in recent decades. Sadly, it’s cost millions of students access to the education they deserve.

Parents, take note: “Social-emotional learning” might sound harmless, but behind the buzzwords are data mining, ideology, and emotional manipulation in schools.

A woeful number of students enter high school without a basic knowledge of even rudimentary grammar concepts like noun, verb, and adjective. Maybe the move away from explicit grammar instruction was a mistake?

I will unite with anyone who supports the United States Constitution, loves our country, and wants to defeat Woke (Left and Right) completely, regardless of political party.

If you've been in the classroom you know that the leading cause of "Stress" (No. 2) and "Burnout" (No. 5) is "Student Behavior" (No. 1). It's not complicated, folks. If you want to keep teachers you've got to create the classroom conditions that allow them to keep teaching.

A teacher's job isn't to get students to love history, science, lit, or whatever else A teacher's job is simply to teach the curriculum well (And if they simply teach well, more students will end up loving the content than if they try to foster a "love" of it)

HUGE win for every student in America. 🇺🇸 Thanks to our friends at Defending Education for taking this on!

To be an English teacher 2025 is to have to advocate repeatedly for students to be able to read books in your classroom because there are decision-makers above concerned about a "student reading crisis" who have decided the solution is to...remove books.

I am convinced you could replace every PD day with a teacher work day and it would be ten times more productive.

Dismay-causing survey Social studies teachers think it's more important that students "be activists" than they "know facts" about history

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We've spent years making teachers less authoritative in an attempt to "build relationships." But students don't need another friend. They need an anchor, an adult who can hold steady when the chaos of the world around them doesn't.

Parents, if your children never read at home, rarely have writing assignments, & need a calculator to do simple math, but bring home stellar report cards every time, you need to ask questions. We’re currently witnessing the fallout from grade inflation in k-12 & it’s not pretty.

Interesting how many people are suddenly speaking up about this. Where were you for the last 10 years when deranged ideologues were gutting merit from our educational system? Only now that you don’t have to pay a price do you speak up. To me, that’s disingenuous. But of course,

Good morning.

In the past several decades we made the shift from teacher-led, explicit instruction to student-led, inquiry-based learning. Since then, we’ve seen a tremendous increase in students who are “diagnosed” with learning disabilities. In a logical world where things make sense, we’d