TWITTER USER: "Education research is shoddy and weak."

ALSO TWITTER USER: "All of my viewpoints on education are from the tweets of SovereignCitizen420 and EduDissenter6969."

All of the folks retweeting Kelsey Piper's articles about education are about to learn this lesson the hard way.

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"Sorry, kids. Wish we could, but Machiavelli is not included in the StudySync bundle we purchased. Can I interest you in this decodable short story instead?"

Seeing all the different things schools are doing right now to motivate students to try their best on testing says a lot, I think, about how divorced they are from being meaningful for students.

This is a real problem and the stakes are high, but Dems keep relying on vague notions of "economic mobility" to sell an ultimately hollow and soulless vision of public education.

The Right Has a Lofty Vision for Schools. Where’s Ours? The Right is selling a vision of classical education that promises to build character and nurture wonder. Liberals are stuck aiming for higher test scores and employability. Public education defenders...

Books have become "right-coded" as a result. Democrats should rethink their positions on public education, which might start with taking books more seriously than scripted curriculum and thinking about literacy beyond its technical aspects aligned with workplace demands.

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I'm pointing out how the Democrats' positioning of public ed as test prep and job training has allowed the GOP to seize some high ground, including by talking about getting books back into classrooms.

Annie, Jennifer Berkshire, and Nora de la Cour all have written amazing pieces on this issue.

It will be won or lost on the streets, like most politically important things. It's about talking with colleagues across schools and within unions, building coalitions with families and community members, talking with leaders and school boards.

Politics is still local.

Conservative parents and teachers unions become unlikely allies fighting tech in schools After years of maligning teachers unions, Moms for Liberty has joined forces with its former adversaries to push for limits on laptops in classrooms.

As a caregiver, educator, and researcher concerned about edtech in schools, I’m not interested in forming alliances with bigots.

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One of the most important arguments @annieabrams.bsky.social has made: don't cede books to the political right.

Unfortunately, the lack of a progressive answer to the reactionary rhetoric is because we've done just that, but it doesn't have to stay that way!

One of the big lessons of the SoR movement has been to be careful of the company you keep, even when there's alignment on goals. I think as the pushes for more books and less corporate ed tech in classrooms grow, this will be important to remember. Resistance to reactionary nostalgia is key.

Q&A: Former Gov. Rick Snyder on how Michigan can turn itself around Snyder can't run for governor again, but he has a 10-point plan to drive the conversation in this year's election.

Rick Snyder, architect of the Flint Water Crisis, thinks competency-based education is the way toward making Michigan like Mississippi.

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Michigan can move beyond seat time to an education system that works for every student • Michigan Advance From seat time to student learning: Michigan's chance to build an education system that works for all

Beware of the latest push toward competency-based education in #MichEd. Much of it is a back-door attempt by the political right, including CEOs and former politicians, to push atomized, low-level skill-and-drill instruction along with harmful language policies.

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Dr. Alexander Manshel Talks High School English & the Making of American Readers In this episode of Conceptually Speaking, I sit down with Dr.

Very excited to share my most recent episode of Conceptually Speaking! No matter where you’re situated in the English Studies penumbra, @manshel.bsky.social’s research on the history of English education is must-read scholarship. #literacies #edusky #academicsky

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Which is infuriating, if I'm being honest, because one day they will all claim to have been against it.

I'm hoping the editor at BookRiot who mocked me to her followers for pointing out how literacy laws, including those supported by by Dems, are covert attempts at book banning under the guise of "reading science" deserve our attention, protest, and anger is feeling awesome about herself today.

It's maybe the most bipartisan effort in the country right now.

Our political leaders want to Make Literacy Technical Again nationwide in order to totally control schools: mandated scripted curriculum from corporate vendors, endless standardized assessment, banned teaching methods, and restrictive book lists.

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Never a better time than now to follow the money.

The Right Has a Lofty Vision for Schools. Where’s Ours? The Right is selling a vision of classical education that promises to build character and nurture wonder. Liberals are stuck aiming for higher test scores and employability. Public education defenders...

Recommended reading: Nora De La Cour's latest for Jacobin on how the right ended up with a more appealing vision for public schools than test/career prep jacobin.com/2026/04/righ...

Red state book bans and mandates rightly attract a lot of attention. Meanwhile, there’s been and continues to be a quieter shift in blue states away from meaningful kinds of reading and writing.

Huge thanks to @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social for amplifying the conversation about how "blue state" politicians have embraced the corporate, back-to-basics "Make Literacy Technical Again" movement at the expense of a more holistic, compelling, and purposeful vision for education.

A quoted tweet that says "I'm suspicious of anything that is picking up steam du to what amounts to privileged white nostalgia at the end of the world." The original tweet reads: "The whole books campaign is picking up steam. I'm not opposed to reading entire books. But be careful, this is where you get summaries and general overviews. If you want close analysis and drawing meaning from the text...students have to get to specific passages."

Kids are being denied access to books because of a toxic mix of deficit thinking and corporate control enabled by state governments. Now, in the place of books, students are getting slop designed in the name of test prep.

It's exhausting to defend access to books from both the right and the left.

For me, it’s that 2 of 3 are clearly grifters and charlatans, and there is a case to be made that the 3rd is as well.

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These dudes might be the three people in my room in Hell if I was a character in No Exit.

How Structured Literacy is Helpful for Dyslexia, but Not Everyone Structured Literacy is a rational approach to ameliorating dyslexia, but the extension of the approach to the general population is a bad case of mission creep that involved two fundamental errors.

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"Teach as if everyone has dyslexia and no one is left behind."

Do not do this.

Our literacy instruction should be responsive. Dyslexic students need more direct, explicit instruction than non-dyslexic students, and we should give both what they need. Too much direct, explicit instruction can set non-dyslexic students back.