Good for your daughter, but that is definitely not the norm
for a three year old. It has nothing to do with parents.

There are no literacy skills at that age except maybe pointing at pictures and asking if they know what it is. Even then-this is ridiculous.

ALL of the Epstein administration has to go.

They are ALL a Russian asset. Get them out!

Members of my family came over on the Mayflower, and I still consider myself to be an immigrant.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Remembering Why There’s a Special Education Law - Nancy Bailey's Education Website Donald Trump is destroying programs that help Democratic and Republican kids, including special education. He seems not to understand why laws exist to protect students. Linda McMahon is eliminating t...

Don't forget why we needed a law for children with disabilities to get educated to begin with.
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Three Overlooked Reasons Why Children Struggle with Reading - Nancy Bailey's Education Website Three overlooked reasons for children's struggles to read and low test scores include: Unreasonable Expectations, Disabilities and Inclusion, and Fast-Tracking Teachers. Unreasonable Expectations Kind...

If children are expected to be good readers, then all variables that impede their development or lead us to assume they're failing, and that their teachers and public schools fail, should be examined. #EduSky nancyebailey.com/2026/01/11/t...

Jesus.

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How new USPS rules put the right to vote at risk Read more here.

As we begin 2026, a new development threatens to further undermine voting by mail. A recent rule change at the U.S. Postal Service means that postmarks will no longer reflect the date a piece of mail was deposited at a local post office. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/how-...

The cynics think today's attack on Venezuela is staged and transactional. Maduro is allied with Putin, but in 2019 Putin offered Trump a swap: Russia cedes Venezuela and gets Ukraine. (See Fiona Hill's testimony in Trump's first impeachment trial, h/t @davetroy.com). Even Maduro may be in on it. 2/

We need to end yearly standardized testing which is driving the use of teaching short excerpts instead of whole books.

ICYMI: Hope You're Ready Edition (12/21) It feels like there are a couple of days yet, but there really aren’t-- especially if we hold onto our reserve not to enrich Bezos this year.

ICYMI: Hope You're Ready Edition (12/21) - Peter Greene's weekly education article roundup. curmudgucation.substack.com/p/icymi-hope... #EducationMatters

It’s basically an invisible fence for humans.

🚨 United States of America v. Hobbs Learn more.

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of Common Power, my law firm has filed to intervene against DOJ’s lawsuit seeking to compel Washington to provide its complete voter registration lists.

We are now defending voters in 10 states against DOJ scheme to access voter records. www.democracydocket.com/cases/washin...

CARTOON OF THE DAY

Are Today’s Children Developmentally Different from Children in the Past? - Nancy Bailey's Education Website Does research show us that young children have evolved to where they can learn faster? Are they smarter than they used to be? No! There is no research to indicate that a child’s brain has evolved over...

There is no research indicating that a child’s brain has evolved to the point where they need a learning environment more difficult than in the past. nancyebailey.com/2015/01/13/a...

If this evidence ever sees the light of day, I want prosecutors, judges, and juries to see it, but I have absolutely no interest in viewing any of it.

Will this be available on streaming?

This is an excellent idea!!!

Ok, when is Trump going to step down?

TAPPER: Do you agree that the US is at risk of a recession?

BESSENT: I believe we are in a transition period here. I think we're in good shape, but there are sectors of the economy that are in recession

Because they started worshipping Milton Friedman.

A new episode of my podcast, Kohn's Zone, just dropped -- "Making Kids Work a Second Shift": Is it time to stop focusing on how much homework kids are assigned and take a step back to ask whether research, logic, and values support requiring any homework at all?
www.alfiekohn.org/podcasts/

Photos comparing 6:30am in Boston on October 26 per Daylight Saving Time (pitch black) versus Standard Time (bright sky).

DST is why most Americans wake by alarm in darkness. Permanent Standard Time would let us sleep longer and awaken naturally to sunlight, for health!

Former chair of the Tennessee libertarian party 👇🏽

Not if there’s nowhere else to go.

CBS been cooked

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The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

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When you give everything you've got all your life, you hope there will be some help from the system you paid into.