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Literacy

Is Your Child’s School Still Using Debunked Reading Theories?

Like many people who care about kids learning to read, I’ve been hearing a lot about the “science of reading” lately. The other night, I asked a teacher friend if their school is using a curriculum...

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Bye Bye Birdie: What's Next for Ed-Twitter?

I couldn’t make heads or tails of Twitter when I started an account. Users were birds? What was an RT? And then that flock helped me win a punditry competition. I picked up a bunch of new followers,...

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Professor Fired for Showing Picture of Prophet Muhammad

An adjunct professor at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota was fired after showing her class medieval paintings depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Erika Lopez Prater showed an online class...

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Educators, Watch for These Legislative Efforts in 2023

You’ve probably heard this a gazillion times but I think it’s worth mentioning again, especially considering what has been transpiring in our educational landscape…….the work that we do, as...

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Literacy

Q&A With Laura Bollman: Breaking Down Barriers to Literacy With Free Teacher Training

With reading scores declining for most students across the nation, it’s imperative schools adopt science-based reading methods to ensure more students get the basics they need. With limited funds,...

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Learning Should Not be Relevant or Rigorous, It Should be Both

“This class is really challenging, but ….” At the end of every year for the past decade, my government and economics students have written letters to the students who will take the courses next year....

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