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Ask your superintendent...Is the student work in our first-year teachers’ classrooms top-notch?Is it indistinguishable from the work in other teachers’ classrooms?Because in districts with high-quality curriculum, that’s not just poss

Here’s the issue with the mess in NYC right now...What we need is a *hard reset* of outdated norms: – 3% threshold agreed in July – any single-metric trigger for

A great feature on @GinaRaimondo’s leadership in school reopening.Worth a read to see the encouraging stats and the clear portrait of leadership. 1/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/us/how-rhode-island-reopened-schools.html To wit, this.

Here’s the thing on school reopening... the recent future will look like the recent past.Most Governors will stay hands-off about school reopening, and leave it to 14,000 superintendents. Just as

@AlecMacGillis has done an ASTOUNDINGLY good job of explaining why many of our schools stayed closed – in the face of MUCH evidence they could reopen.Media sensationalism. Politics. A fear-centered

.@natwexler highlights a critical issue for T's in the last 20 yrs... a migration towards crummy reading-passages-with-comprehension-Q's in ELA, an unintended consequence of high-stakes testing.Also, how schools are bringing in

Something I'm wondering... has anyone (reporters, other) looked into whether the COVID cases & deaths of NYC educators correlated with school-based transmission?Saw lots of stories like this:1/ @anya1anya https://www.npr.org/section

Ithaca “developed an equity report card that allows users to sort various indicators, such as grad. rates, grade-level reading rates, performance on state assessments, suspensions-even the % of elementary Ss

Statistically significant positive effects from teaching reading & writing together.This is one of the greatest virtues of high-quality curricula, in my opinion... the instruction is so intertwined.1/ #elachat https://ila.onlinelibrary.

This is a really important story.I'm glad to see the @nytimes spotlight on it, c/o @DanaGoldstein @elizashapiro.Not so sure about its headline, tho.1/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/us/coronavirus-teachers-unions-school-home.html When some uni

I was v surprised to see @NYCMayor’s communications director suggesting that there’s no value to 3-4 weeks of school (if we could get it).This contradicts what I hear from educators

"What we were doing wasn’t working. Many of our children weren’t learning to read. In fact, a large majority — 62% — weren’t proficient in reading. That was unacceptable."This piece