The coming global food crisis Hunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. Now the world must act to shield the poorest from effects that will continue long after the fighting stops

Meanwhile, while this mess unfolds, supply shortages including of jet fuel and fertilizer are having serious real world consequences.

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#FridayFive
1. The Rainbow. Talk Talk
2. Everything in its right place. Radiohead
3. Nebula. Incubus
4. Cock/Ver10. Aphex Twin
5. Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie. Joanna Newsom

As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate.

Taxing billionaires is not radical.

What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship.

Building a high participation classroom: key steps If they aren’t listening, they aren’t learning. But knowing where to start to build a high participation classroom can be hard, so we’ve mapped out the key steps.

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In many classrooms, lots of students aren’t listening, meaning they aren’t learning. Here we outline a few common mistakes and simple techniques for building classrooms where ALL students participate.

Please share if you can 🙏

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Literary text in William Shakespeare’s own handwriting

A powerful plea for compassion, written over 400 years ago.

This manuscript in our collection is believed to contain the only surviving literary text in William Shakespeare’s handwriting. Its message still resonates today.

Discover more here: link.bl.uk/tkr

Thank you for making this available! Looks like some Sunday reading for me getting ready to start planning for September.

Hi Mary, this looks brilliant and I can’t wait to purchase. Will it be in paperback as well?

"Your tauntaun will freeze before you reach the first marker."
"Then I'll see you in Hell!"

Both seem like reasonable concessions for that album 🤣

Number five is awesome. Each Radiohead album has a great opener.

Number five is v good

#FridayFive. Album opening tracks.
1. Mojo Pin. Jeff Buckley
2. First Light. Converge.
3. Emily. Joanna Newsom.
4. Prison Song. SOAD.
5. Everything in its Right Place. Radiohead.

Nothing beats it. Greatest watch ever.

UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns Prof Tim Lang says country produces far less food than it needs to feed population and is particularly vulnerable

‘The nine big retailers account for 94.5% of all retail food. That’s nine companies, using just 131 distribution centres. In drone war, that’s a sitting duck.’
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Britain’s food supply ‘at risk of catastrophic failure by 2030’ A report written before the 2024 election says climate change, habitat loss and geopolitical instability are a danger to food security — and it has been ignored

‘Status of Defra's critical systems to 2030 and beyond’ was commissioned before the 2024 election by civil servants at Defra.’

‘When @rupertread.bsky.social…asked under a FOI request for the report to be published, the government claimed to have no record of it.’
www.thetimes.com/article/3812...

#FridayFive
1. The Rainbow - Talk Talk
2. Mojo Pin - Jeff Buckley
3. ‘Bout it - JMSN
4. Pink and White - Frank Ocean
5. If you should see - Wye Oak

That's a quote for the ages

Reading comprehension is not a skill. It’s an outcome of what you know. Strategies plateau. Knowledge compounds.
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I can’t see what this is in response to. Anyway, hopefully everyone learns how to have a normal argument.

A very thoughtful thread. Thank you for taking the time to explore and discuss.

Most teachers will, at some point, write lessons they will never teach themselves.

Heads of department do it constantly.

That shift changes everything.

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The White Paper appears as if it will say "expert and effective SEND provision exists but we don't have enough money to fund it so we're providing more money."

If true I think this is a very grave error and will waste billions, not improve anything and probably make things worse.

I would say that phonics was designed to support people not being illiterate, not to inculcate a love of reading.

lol, can we stop melting ice caps!?

It should be enough to ask ‘what about the reservoirs and rivers this destroys?’ Before you even get to the product itself. It’s horrific that this isn’t being put forward before anything else.

If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.

It’s just come through the post! Looking forward to reading, thank you so much 🥳

An utter tragedy. Science solved this problem, but a bunch of charlatans fucked everything up and brought it back

🧵So, what works when teaching reading comprehension in the classroom? To a whole class?

I dedicated a entire chapter of my Phd thesis to exploring the literature on this.

In fact, we do not know a lot about what works when teachers teach, to whole classes.

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Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

there's fierce competition, but this is one of the most stomach-turning things I've read in some time