new article published open access in Reading Research Quarterly 💫 Follow the word gap: the social life of a deficit concept https://t.co/MHVYiVdscD i trace how deficit ideologies associated with the 'word gap' get reproduced - and rejected - in teacher education and schools.

language tests are not just language tests - they are inequitable technologies of border keeping and border control

"the contemporary #oracy agenda (assumes) that social justice can be unlocked by marginalised children making tweaks to their language", framing "social justice as a matter of individualised remediation and thus (obscuring) the structural dimensions of inequality" #education

@TwinklDigest @voice21oracy @CharteredColl Worth reading this then @CharteredColl before declaring you believe that! https://t.co/PnrxjITS5k.

Please join me on 12th November at my professorial inaugural lecture on ‘Language Diversity and Social (In)justice’ at the University of Leeds . More info here, including a link at the bottom to book a ticket (which is free but we need to track numbers):

My review of Nick Gibb's Reforming Lessons is now available on @YorksBylines: "This book unavoidably feels like a desperate attempt by a long-standing minister to safeguard his legacy from the reality of the education system he left behind" https://t.co/xu8Vqy2oRm

💥 follow the word gap into oblivion 💥

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it takes a long time to socialise most undergraduate students out of the idea that there is an ‘academic language’ they must conform to, but once they unlearn this ideology then their writing becomes better and more powerful than it ever was before 🌸

linguistic justice is always about more than language – and sometimes it is about having the right to not use language at all. to choose to remain quiet. to choose to silently observe rather than interact.

You’ve massively cut bursaries. Nobody’s fooled.

using private schools as a reference point for an argument for ‘more oracy’ and ‘better oracy’ in state schools is not the win some people think it is. privately educated kids don’t come to occupy positions of social power and influence because of their ‘better oracy’ skills.

A brillliant, fascinating article by Ian Cushisng about the word gap - but also about the whole ecology of our current education system, uncovered by tracing the experiences of one teacher and what these reveal about the system as a whole. https://t.co/A6dSHBlQPj

New: ResearchED: where does the money go? https://t.co/tX2svxbNfD Long-read analysis of the economics of the prominent education organisation’s annual conference.

This is more than just four quarters. It’s every tailgate, every chant, every moment. It’s fuel that goes beyond the field. This is CELSIUS! LIVE. FIT. GO.

Happy Black History Month. In honour of the start of BHM I want to highlight Black bookshops. First up is New Beacon Books, the UK’s 1st Black bookshop. In 2021, owners said they’d be closing down due to financial pressures but then over £70k was raised to keep them open 🙌🏾

the last thing that young children living in poverty who have limited access to books need is a compulsory standardised test which claims to assess their ability to read

i hope this article gives hope to any teachers who are confronted with ideologies of the 'word gap' in their schools. despite the stubbornness of this deficit concept, there are always spaces for resistance 💕

And I cannot stop thinking about this…

This is not a video game. With lethal connectivity, EagleEye enables Warfighters to command and control unmanned systems and call for fires through a heads-up, hands-free display.

I hate the saying, 'If you only read one thing this weekend...' - but if you are working in education in any context, do get round to reading this this weekend!

Follow the Word Gap: The Social Life of a Deficit Concept

if you are a teacher at any level from early years through to postgraduate and have an interest in social justice struggles then a subscription to Rethinking Schools is an absolute must 💫💕

new article published open access in Reading Research Quarterly 💫 Follow the word gap: the social life of a deficit concept https://t.co/MHVYiVdscD i trace how deficit ideologies associated with the 'word gap' get reproduced - and rejected - in teacher education and schools.

Prophecy isn’t guessing the future—it’s hearing it before it arrives. Robin Bullock explains the sound that comes before the move. Watch Full episode