Science of Reading Mandates: Who’s Listening to The Experts? - Nancy Bailey's Education Website

Forty states are mandating the Science of Reading (SoR), promoting what they call evidence-based learning. Sadly, for years, thought-provoking arguments by accomplished reading and educational experts...

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Science of Reading Mandates: Who’s Listening to The Experts? - Nancy Bailey's Education Website

Forty states are mandating the Science of Reading (SoR), promoting what they call evidence-based learning. Sadly, for years, thought-provoking arguments by accomplished reading and educational experts...

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Leagues of Their Own? Barefoot and Pregnant Edition

MAGA’s Plan for Restoring the (White) American Family

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Vasquez-Heilig: Real Republicans Don’t Impose Their Views on Others

I remember, a time long ago, when Republicans believed in small government. Except for public health, they believed in allowing localities and states to make their own decisions. Trump Republicans,…

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Was the “Mississippi Miracle” a Short-Time Surge?

John Thompson, writing from Oklahoma, reviews the research on the “Mississippi Miracle,” the strategies that boosted fourth-grade test scores? Those strategies are now being turned into…

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Todd Blanche Vows to Attack Abortion Rights in Every State

Behind closed doors, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche assured faith-based opponents of abortion that he would act forcefully to outlaw the purchase of abortion pills by mail. The New Republic w…

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Teaching and the $1.98 Porsche

One of the most widely read pieces I ever wrote was a piece for Forbes about the need to stop talking about a “teacher shortage,” which incuded this paragraph.

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Yes on Proposition 40: California’s Billionaire Tax Is A Fight Worth Having

Just Say No To The Epstein Class and Their Super Yachts

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Florida Threatens to Defund Catholic Schools Unless They Allow Students to Opt Out of Vaccines

Florida has become a very weird state. There’s hardly a conspiracy theory that Governor Ron DeSantis is not championing, especially when the subject is public health. DeSantis hired Dr. Josep…

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Trump Administration Continues to Demonstrate the Importance of the U.S. Dept. of Education even While Trying to Shut It Down

Information has leaked that the Department of Health and Human Services plans to post new guidance in the Federal Register this week for comments before radically reducing federal regulation of Hea…

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Israel Firebombed a Family Home Where Children Were Sleeping in Latest Killing Spree - Green Social Thought

GAZA CITY—The charred shell of the Al-Masri family home in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City was still smoldering on Tuesday afternoon, hours after the Israel military bombed it, killing Firas and S...

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Water, Water, Water: Everywhere & Nowhere

From San Diego to North Africa to the Straits of Hormuz

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Questionable business dealings raised in charter school closure

Questionable business dealings raised in charter school closure

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Ridiculous Headlines about Public Education

I’ve been writing about education policy and practice for more than 25 years, in my local newspaper (gratis), for an education nonprofit (paid), for Education Week (the journal of record for ed pol…

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ICYMI: Down East Edition (8/2)

The Board of Directors, CMO, and I are currently operating from the Maine field office, an annual adventure completre with woods, water, a little ocean, and other rebalancing team building exercises d...

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Will Trump’s Brazen Money Blitz Backfire?

A President who is the public face of greed and corruption thinks his billionaire buddies can bamboozle the mid-term electorate.

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The Best Review of “The Odyssey” Published Anywhere

Greg Olear, author and blogger, saw Christopher Nolan’s film The Odyssey at a matinee on the first day it was released. His review is informed, thoughtful, and incisive. if you never read The…

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GLP-1 Meds for Kids? Some Info.

Like many consumers of television and social media, I have been bombarded with ads for GLP-1s (short for glucagon-like peptide-1). The ads are everywhere. Multiple GLP-1 versions by a number of pha…

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Michael Hiltzik: Why Dr. Fauci Took the Fifth Amendment in Congressiknal Hearing

Michael Hiltzik, Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist for the Los Angeles Times, explains why Dr. Anthony Fauci took the Fifth Amendment and refused to testify when questioned by Senator Rand Paul&#821…

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Heather Cox Richardson on the GOP Vendetta Against Dr. Fauci

Heather Cox Richardson wrote about the GOP hearings on Dr. Anthony Fauci, led by Senator Rand Paul. Why attack Dr. Fauci? It’s a useful distraction from pressing issues of this day: Trump&#82…

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Signs of a Dying Democracy?

Three speeches by public figures on the same day alarmed Dr. Robert B. Shpiner, a clinical professor of medicine in pulmonary and critical care at the UCLA medical school. He wrote about what he pe…

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Peter Greene: Will the Federal Voucher Program Put Private Schools at Risk?

Some years back, I was invited to lecture at Notre Dame University. My views of charter schools and vouchers were well known. I wasn’t sure how to frame my critique of school choice at this g…

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Horse Dewormer Ranch Dressing Pitched As Solution for Contaminated Lettuce?

It can't be any crazier than what Republicans are currently doing

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Should This Even Have to Be Said? A Sex-Doll Company’s AI Robot Has No Business Teaching Our Children

Should teens be taught by AI sex robots? This may seem like a ludicrous question for an article, but if you have been watching the news, it’s a real thing this week. After public outcry, a Ne…

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