This is a very nice link where you can buy my book:

Not sure if it counts as a conspiracy but if you haven't spent some time on the wikipedia page for MKUltra, gear up:

To raise scores wouldn't your only option be to raise wages? I doubt Daniel wants to pay teachers more.

Well for one "prospective teacher" isn't the major, education is the major, and a huge chunk of teachers don't major in it.

@educationweek Same finding in this report, it's phonics + other stuff.

@educationweek So, thinking this through, if the Science of Reading movement is going to have success it probably won't come in making phonics more popular -- it was already quite popular. But are decodable readers rising in popularity? Leveled readers becoming less? Stuff like that.

@educationweek The argument of Sold a Story was that three-cuing was being taught instead of phonics. But this survey suggests that teachers in practice do both, even though it's ideologically inconsistent.

@educationweek Three-cueing, also very popular.

@educationweek Also, phonics was taking up a lot of time -- 40% of reading instruction time in K-2.

@educationweek Vast majority understood that you have to actually try to teach kids to read, they won't just learn to read on their own.

@educationweek So were the leveled readers that people like Fountas & Pinnell promoted and sold.

@educationweek Phonics came out looking really popular.

@educationweek "Overall, the survey results neither suggest that explicit, systematic phonics instruction is absent from U.S. schools nor that it is universally embraced. most educators are using a mix of instructional techniques, some of which are in conflict with each other.".

This @educationweek survey of teachers/teacher educators from 2019 about early reading instruction is really informative. Some highlights below.

The lesson here for editors is to please assign education articles to education reporters.

Readers of the NYT unfortunately do not learn that the "A.I." is just iXL, the extremely common school software that has almost nothing to do with "A.I.".

“Motivation is 90 percent of what creates a great learning experience,” MacKenzie Price said, but the article doesn't really dig into what motivating students looks like in Alpha School, instead referencing "A.I." some 29 times.

Edtech, an entire industry based on a meme.

RT @TomSnarsky: very grateful today to have two poems up @havehadhavehad — here’s the first one:

Since @Stephen_Sawchuk has now seen this tweet let me mention that Education Week does a pretty good job covering trends in actual teaching! If you like having opinions about what's wrong in US education you should consider subscribing.