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Literacy

Reading Instruction Is Not a Religion

Episode III of Emily Hanford’s latest podcast, Sold a Story, describes how New Zealander Marie Clay’s debunked theory of how children learn to read took hold in the United States. Two education...

Literacy

There’s a Reading Miracle Happening Down in Mississippi

Cora-Lisa Weathersby’s son Cameron loves to read. But last year, when the Jackson, Mississippi, third grader was assigned weekly passages of challenging text, filled with unfamiliar words, Weathersby...

Hocus Pocus in the Public Schools: The Witch Trials Come to Texas Education

Recently, my fiance and I fired up Disney+ and bathed in the nostalgic glow of "Hocus Pocus 2," the 30 years-in-the-making sequel to the '90s cult classic starring Bette Midler, Sara Jessica Parker,...

4 Action Steps to Creating Bully-Free Schools

Bullying is an epidemic in schools. It happens in so many different ways to scholars of almost any background and makes prevention feel impossible. As part of National Bullying Prevention Month, KIPP...

Hey Shawnta! NAEP Scores Are a Disaster. How Do We Improve Students’ Academic Outcomes?

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is frequently called the Nation’s Report Card. In 2022—from January to March—NAEP was given to a representative section of 4th and 8th graders...

Let's Not Go NAEPShit. Here's What You Need to Know.

You will likely hear plenty about the COVID-19 pandemic’s impacts on how America’s students performed on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). NAEP is the gold-standard test...