Beware of Wise. As the victim of fraud while abroad, Wise could only provide unhelpful bots. I closed my account, too risky.

Imagine it is 2007. All academic performance talk, all the time. NCLB sanctions starting to hit. Someone reveals the future to you with this article. Hard to believe we landed here.

Has America Given Up on Children’s Learning?

A superb essay on contemporary school reform by Dana Goldstein. | Has America Given Up on Children’s Learning? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/u...

Joe was a great Dean of the KSG.

NAEP, the Nation's Report Card, was supposed to be safe. It's not Funding pauses, layoffs and looming budget cuts threaten a critical test

The gutting of NAEP continues. | NAEP, the Nation's Report Card, was supposed to be safe. It's not hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

There will be a Dem president someday, one who, I hope, does not follow this precedent. No matter how unpopular the department or agency is among party loyalists. Go back to Congress and dismantle legally.

When schools buy new reading programs, they look to EdReports. But some of its reviews don’t line up with science. Even though EdReports is only a decade old, it has quickly become a powerful force in the educational publishing industry. Many schools rely on its reviews when they decide which reading programs to b...

Shame on all of those who have used EdReports to identify (and then promote) "high quality instructional materials." | When schools buy new reading programs, they look to EdReports. But some of its reviews don’t line up with science. www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...

Great op-ed by @pauldiperna.bsky.social on the value of federal education data infrastructure

I'm not sure what the long game is to preserve and improve federal investment in education research, but I know the short game requires right-of-center folks making cases like this

More of this please!

Buying this stock while Elon spends so much time on poltics is poor risk-reward. If you alienate half of your market through ideology, uh no.

Why Common Core failed Promising beginnings, disappointing outcomes.

effective instructional strategies and curricula that boost learning. Scientific discovery, not standards-based regulation, should be the dominant theme of the next era of education reform. www.brookings.edu/articles/why...

Replacing Common Core with a different set of standards will solve very little. The United States cannot regulate its way to educational excellence. It’s time to invest resources in improving the basic science of education—including the discovery of new,

The proposed policy will fail again, as did Common Core. www.brookings.edu/articles/why...

What a horrible idea! Integrated math in high school, long the dream of education progressives, has been tried repeatedly. Always fails. The last big push came as a result of Common Core. In the 2019 NCES Transcript Study, only 6% reported taking Math3 as juniors.

Excited to give this presentation in the @uwinnipeg physics colloquium on Friday.

You Can't Teach What You Don't Know: The Flawed Process Behind Manitoba's Teacher Certification Changes

All are welcome.

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The geographical political divisions within Western democracies are huge.

Looks like a governing coalition in Germany may need three parties. Difficult to assemble, easy to fall apart.

Nat Malkus of AEI calculates DOGE estimates of cancelled Ed contracts are about 22% of what DOGE claims: Running Down DOGE’s Department of Education Receipts www.aei.org/education/ru...

The Long Term Trend NAEP test in math goes back to 1978. It was cancelled this week while being administered to 17 year olds nationwide. What an incredible loss for the nation.

The NAEP Long Term Trend test for 17 year olds was cancelled while in the field. The test in reading goes back to 1971. What an enormous loss for the United States!

Craziness.

Eliminate the data, eliminate the problem!

Inexplicable Cuts at the Dept. of Education Recently, DOGE has bragged about terminating 89 contracts worth a collective $881 million at the Institute for Education Sciences at the US Department of Education.

Inexplicable Cuts at the Dept. of Education
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Helping teachers learn what works in the classroom − and what doesn’t − will get a lot harder without the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences The nonpartisan arm of the Education Department supports research and shares data on student progress. It identifies what works and what doesn’t.

Helping teachers learn what works in the classroom − and what doesn’t − will get a lot harder without the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences
theconversation.com/helping-teac...

Wishing the best for Angelinos affected by fire

The Clash release “London Calling”, their 3rd studio LP, today in 1979.

“Punk rock isn’t something you grow out of,” Joe Strummer said. “Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is, ‘Give us some truth.’”

“Train in Vain”

Indeed, Francis Parker was an early advocate of Progressive Education. I'd also look at Pestalozzi, Herbart, and Frobel for 19th Cent. thought and Rousseau's Emile for philosophical origins. Cremin's history traces out the development and Ravitch's Left Back on the consequences for policy.

About TIMSS 2023 - TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center In 2023, IEA and the TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center conducted the eighth cycle of TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) at the fourth and eighth grades. The results o...

The latest TIMSS results (from 2023) will be released next week, on Wednesday Dec. 4 at 10:00 AM CET, 4:00 AM EDT, 1:00 AM PDT. timssandpirls.bc.edu/timss2023/in...