Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform”
@MrDanielBuck
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Father, Child of God, Runner | Research Fellow, @AEI & Director, CERN | Author, "What Is Wrong with Our Schools?"
Wisconsin
Joined October 2014
The most common question I'm asked is "What else?" If not project-based learning and Dewey, what should teachers read? You've convinced me direction instruction works. So how do I do it well? Here are 5 resources to get teachers started A mini-🧵
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I’ve never even interacted with her on here😂😂😂
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Half of New York students aren’t proficient in math or reading What’s that old definition of insanity?
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Can we make Thomas Sowell a regular part of high school curricula?
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Can we make Thomas Sowell a regular part of high school curricula?
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This just in: Bees now outperform U.S. students on international standardized tests
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@MrDanielBuck Therein lies the appeal for many in education, although they’d never admit it. They’re not being “lazy,” they’re “encouraging discovery.” If I ever write a book, it’ll be called “Blue Collar Teaching.”
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“Discovery learning” is more aptly named “not teaching”
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There’s a lot of rending of clothing and gnashing of teeth over our culture’s supposed inability to make any new IP and it doesn’t really concern me that much Artistic greats like Shakespeare stolen all of their source material from elsewhere There’s nothing new under the sun
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I’m proud to be considered an “enemy” by many of the so-called “good guys” in American education
As a teacher, I realized early on that the good guys aren’t the good guys and the bad guys aren’t the bad guys. Time to take education back from the “good guys.”
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As a teacher, I realized early on that the good guys aren’t the good guys and the bad guys aren’t the bad guys. Time to take education back from the “good guys.”
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"Queering Elementary Literacy Curriculum" A required course reading for prospective elementary school teachers at California Northstate University Anyone who tells you "That's not happening" is a liar
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"Parents, hug your children." "I'm not sure I agree with this statement! What if you're a parent without arms?!"
I’m not sure I agree with this statement… Would we tell our illiterate parents that there’s “zero excuse not to read to your child every day”?? Would we tell our New Arrival immigrant families with minimal English that there’s “zero excuse not to read to your child every
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“Discovery learning” is more aptly named “not teaching”
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Let’s have government, not parents, raise children from birth to 18. What could go wrong?!
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There’s no timeline where universal government pre-K end well
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Controversy around special ed, IDEA, and inclusion policies is brewing Give it a year or two. This will be the central debate soon.
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"Queering Elementary Literacy Curriculum" A required course reading for prospective elementary school teachers at California Northstate University Anyone who tells you "That's not happening" is a liar
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