Education-Consumers
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And when Balanced Literacy doesn’t deliver, too many states just lower the bar to fake progress. It’s not that kids are reading better—it’s that the standards are sinking.
Grade inflation creates complacency and devalues legitimate accomplishment, but it is ignored because it masks the need for improvement.
Grade inflation for both students and schools. It’s a killer. It keeps the truth from those who need to know the most - parents and citizens.
Poor grades imply poor teaching, poor leadership, poor policy, and poor oversight.
Grade inflation creates complacency and devalues legitimate accomplishment, but it is ignored because it masks the need for improvement.
What may be worse is that the educrats who run the show are pressing state ed agencies to give their schools inflated rankings as well. In TX, for example, schools with Fs in achievement are getting Bs overall. No accountability is better than faux accountability.
It is a disappointment when a child does poorly in school. It becomes a tragedy when a child & his parents are not told the truth. Every year, hundreds of thousands of primary & secondary sch Ss are tested and found to lack minimum skills despite having been promoted from grade…
Try this: "Like any thoughtful group of educators, we must pay careful attention to what students say and do in order to ensure we're serving them to the best of our ability. But at the end of the day it's the adults who are in charge and accountable."
“Student voice must inform decision making” A quote from our new superintendent.
Look at our afternoon snack today at the Explicit Instruction Academy!!! Thank you Dr. Stephanie Stollar for these amazing cookies!!!
Repetition and creativity go hand in hand. The whole point of repetition is to automate basic skills so that they don't waste the mental effort that's needed to fuel higher-level thinking.
If the student hasn’t learned, the teacher hasn’t taught. - Zig Engelmann
Some of our amazing participants from the Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) stopped by the NIFDI booth to snap a photo! 📸 We love seeing all the smiles and connections happening here at the National Institute for Direct Instruction Conference. #NIFDIConf2025 #Literacy #BCP #DI
I’ve also highlighted Steubenville’s success—and sadly, the response is telling. For every one person who asks, “How can we learn from this?”, ten rush to discredit it or claim it’s not real. Why are we more eager to dismiss progress than to replicate it? Disappointing.
In my project looking for districts doing an outstanding job of teaching kids to read, I highlighted Steubenville City in Ohio. It's that district way at the top right of the Ohio graph. the74million.org/article/which-…
I have some of it on my timeline: thephonicspage.org/historyofreadi… Geraldine Rodgers has a 1000+ page book about it, now available as a free PDF. donpotter.net/pdf/history.pdf She is in her upper 90's and recently sent me signed copies of her latest 2 books which she wrote in her 90's!!
The government’s education system is a hot mess. Since at least 1993, the government’s knowingly exploited teachers by churning them out of university educator preparation programs woefully unprepared to teach kids to read at grade level—especially those with learning challenges…
It has never been clearer to me that what we are experiencing are the effects of a post-literate society, one ruled by those do not read
@EduConsumersFdn , I love this calculator! education-consumers.org/research-areas… It looks like the most recent year for Oregon is 2019. Is more recent data available? #datamatters
This doesn't happen with Direct Instruction. One of the many reasons it's so effective.
Replacing textbooks with whatever the teacher finds online was a mistake.
I’m at the Direct Instruction conference. Thank you @NIFDI!!! I am overjoyed and blessed beyond measure My topic? Zig already discovered the science of learning by observing children and their performance We’re just catching up!