Elizabeth Brown

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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.

One thing that concerns me about math education at the primary school level is the idea that every math concept, no matter how trivial, needs to be explored for days on end using countless models and manipulatives in order to provide students with a "deep understanding" of these…

Yet another example of the triumph of romantic ideology over evidence in education. Thank goodness we don’t train pilots, doctors, nurses, & engineers etc in this way, but why should education lag decades behind? 🤷🏻‍♀️

It’s a whole lot easier to implement the science of learning with a program that contains interleaving, spacing, incremental introduction of new topics for novices, etc, supported by active training/live coaching. This is not in place in many schools. educationrickshaw.com/2025/07/24/whe…

Here's a great tidbit that parents might be interested to know: Tier 2 and 3 instruction (pullout, interventions, etc.) is legally required to be evidence-based. Tier 1 instruction (85-90% of the student population) is not. In other words, if your kid hasn't been flagged as…

Every article, study, interview shows the 1st step to improve reading results for kids: adults have to be tired of failure enough to reflect and make tough changes. But many refuse to slaughter their sacred cows. "We just have to keep doing this/that." Then you get what you get.

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…

Ironic that the research on learning coming largely from the US is exported over the pond and may be the source of rising scores. Keep trying @MrZachG

Literacy is a public health issue.

At the National DI Conference, you’re expected to work on teaching, not merely talk about it. There’s rehearsal. There's feedback. There’s repetition. And there’s a final Check Out form - because ultimately we all came here to learn new skills. educationrickshaw.com/2025/07/24/whe…

“If we’re ever to see cognitive science advance here, Oberle said, it’ll take both a top-down and bottom-up approach: word-of-mouth influence among teachers, via events like researchED, as well as federal and state pressure on training programs to bring the research to teachers.”

Retrieval practice stands out as one of the most effective strategies in education research, yet it still seems uncommon in classrooms. Agarwal et al. (2021) reviewed 50 school-based studies with over 5,000 students. Here’s what they found 🧵⬇️

📢 Huge shout out to @ehanford! Sold a Story was just named one of @TIME’s Top 100 Podcasts! 🎉 Her powerful reporting continues to shape districts worldwide, sparking change and driving the shift to evidence-based reading instruction. 🙌📖 #SoldAStory #ReadingJustice #SoR

Cognitive Science Fails to Register in US but hey, I’m trying! the74million.org/article/cognit…

🇬🇧 High quality research on how children learn is now transforming England’s schools: retrieval practice, spaced practice, cognitive load theory and explicit instruction are part of national policy and teacher training. 🇨🇦 Meanwhile in Canada & the US, classrooms largely ignore…

🇨🇦Canada & the US could really learn from England when it comes to improving education. Surely there's a Canadian Minister of Education out there who wants to follow the evidence? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Nick Gibb did it — and now England ranks 4th in the world in reading and is the…

Teacher requested 'trauma-informed support' for a 2nd grader crying and yelling. What set her off? Tchr, "What's this word? Look at the picture" Kid, "Pony" (Word was horse) Kid: She called me stupid Tchr: She must get that racism from home Poor reading instruction is a menace

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.

I have kids that have a genetic predisposition to dyslexia and they were subjected to F&P when we lived in Chicago. It’s a curriculum that causes lasting damage, because the neural pathways are there (but wrong). So much harder to remediate than a child who hasn’t been exposed to…