"Our findings...challenge the traditional assumption that homework is 'inherently good' & instead suggest that researchers, practitioners, students, and parents unpack why the default practice of assigning heavy homework loads exists, in the face of evidence of its negative effects."

Really great article about homework that we cited in a recent school report. For all of our criticism of homework as a standard practice of school, we probably aren't being harsh enough in our criticism. 😬 Nonacademic Effects of Homework in Privileged, High- Performing High Schools, 2013:

The PragerU "Freedom Truck" is coming to Living History Farms in Des Moines this week for a 10-day stop. Will report back... www.lhf.org/event/freedo...

It must be the ethos of Illumination studios to ensure their movies not do anything interesting, funny, or exciting. I swear every new movie of theirs is the new worst movie I've ever seen, can now add Super Mario Galaxy to the list.

NYU students are understandably annoyed about this. I think The Anxious Generation is terrible and anyone who’s genuinely concerned about teen social media usage and mental health needs to read @zephoria.bsky.social nyunews.com/news/2026/05...

ACLS / MLA / AHA / Authors Guild won the NEH case against the mass termination of grants.

"We become like the company we keep." One of my greatest worries in turning teaching into a technical profession alienates kids who don't already come to us identifying as "students." If we don't welcome and make space for them, they'll find identities, purpose, & belonging in spite of us.

Identity, reputation, and mentors and role models were at the center of the stories I heard. Frank Smith wrote, "identification creates the possibility of learning. All learning pivots on who we think we are, and who we see ourselves as capable of becoming.”

I met an inmate, incarcerated for 40 years, who had with him an 18 month old black lab mix, Chesty (named after, Lewis "Chesty" Puller, the most decorated Marine in US history). Chesty was just the youngest of dozens of dogs he had trained as service animals for veterans.

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

Zach spoke candidly about his school experience, recounting his teachers labeling him "disruptive" (while owning the label) and the series of suspensions that led him to drop out in the 8th grade. Recalling "dark mentors" on the streets of Boston who took him up instead...

I don't think I have a unique sweeping insight about the prison system or prison education as a result of a day spent listening & learning @ MCI-Shirley, but I'll carry that experience forward with me into every school & classroom I visit.

an actual, real problem here is that interactive instructional design and live instruction are legitimately two very different skills, and both in academia and in the corporate world, we are increasingly trying to collapse them into the same person

The Community School Model is a primary inspiration for the plan to quadruple the education budget and open schools year round to provide services

Search & subscribe to 'Human Restoration Project' on any podcast app or listen on our website: The Future of Public Education is a Community School feat. Kelly McMahon, Jitu Brown, Angelia Ebner, and Dave Greenberg www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/the...

"The thing that made the fight for Dyett [High School] to me, a model for all other communities to follow is it was a plan crafted out of love and community wisdom in partnership with academic expertise rooted in love." - Jitu Brown on Chicago's Sustainable Community Schools

The paperback has finally been published! If Cognitive Load Theory tells us how to avoid overwhelming students, what comes next? Perfectly clear explanations don't guarantee deep understanding. Teaching Meaning, explores what works when telling isn't enough. mybook.to/teachingmean...

Instant high-point of this whole Boston trip so far is seeing these two dogs being walked in their lil raincoats.

if ai ever works as it’s been sold to us, the most easily replaced employee of every company would be ceo and as far as i can tell theres never been a single article written about that

Folks, you are on Bluesky so you are going to have a distorted sense of how many books most people read. 40% of USians read ZERO books last year.

@cmooreanderson.bsky.social brings such a necessary clarity to fraught discourse: "All teaching styles, therefore, share the same fundamental problem. Rather than a dichotomy between 'telling' and 'discovering,' teaching in any form can be seen as a process that must trigger meaning making."

One major issue missing from this account of the GOP's struggles in Iowa: school vouchers. The controversial program is expensive, unregulated, and widely seen as a handout to wealthy Iowans. This has created a mess for GOP candidates and an opening for Dems www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

The future in 2 stories: 1) AI will create a permanent underclass that no amount of college and career readiness can address and 2) school-as-workplace prep will hasten this along

At the airport early, headed to Boston for some school visits, a grant partnership with the Boston Museum of Science, and a once-in-a-lifetime visit to @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social's journalism class at MCI-Shirley. You can hear about the BC prison education program & Jennifer's class here. 👇

April 2026 — The Effects of School Phone Bans: National Evidence from Lockable Pouches 👀 Mixed results: disciplinary incidents increase in Y1 with decreased well-being but well-being rebounds & discipline issues fade. "Close to zero" impact on academic achievement. www.nber.org/papers/w3513...

"In five years of recording book bans across the country, my organization, PEN America, hasn’t come across a banned book that contains pornography. Why? Because distributing pornography in schools is a felony that can carry a prison term."

"Grittiness" is just another deficit-based box we put kids in to justify failing them.

If the only proposed reform demands less successful groups replicate the attitudes & behaviors of the more successful, that's the equivalent of an entire system shoving its head up its own ass — an idea which of course will always have broad appeal to people who run the system & found success in it.

Times have been worse than they are today in the U.S. Important to remember not because some people aren't living under terrible conditions right now but because it shows that things can in fact change for the better. They change if we change them.

My favorite bit was how the Grit inventory was basically an ADHD inventory in reverse and @notalawyer.bsky.social’s own ADHD kept preventing him from finishing it.

Last five RTs: If you teach long enough you will see any number of edspeak buzzwords come and go, but it’s rare to get the kind of vitriolic vindication that I am anticipating from this episode… 😡

Episode 51: Grit In 2013, education reformers decided to fix America's schools the old-fashioned way: By consulting the 16th most popular Ted Talk.  podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

Neurodiversity is an equity imperative and is critical in shifting the culture of teaching and learning. Not a trend. An imperative. Start here: stimpunks.org/access/educa...

New podcast! The Future of Public Education is a Community School feat. Kelly McMahon, Jitu Brown, Angelia Ebner, and Dave Greenberg How can the expansion of community schools save public education from privatization? www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvjN...

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

The main goal of the back-to-basics movements in schools is to decontextualize learning and depoliticize people, so they take books, authentic writing, and human interaction out of classrooms and fill the time with low-level workplaces training tasks done in isolation, often on surveillance ed tech.

Florida ranks last in US for teacher salaries, report shows.... wsvn.com/news/local/f...

The Future of Public Education is a Community School feat. Kelly McMahon, Jitu Brown, Angelia Ebner, and Dave Greenberg will be up in the @humanrestorationproject.org podcast feed shortly! I don't think I've ever worked so much on an episode, so I hope you like it! 😅

Chicago made it so every public school student can use their school ID as a #LibraryCard 📚. No forms, no extra steps. It gives over 300k students instant access to #books, #tutoring, and online resources 🙌

Wrapped up great conversations with NEA community schools specialists and Chicago Public Schools board member Jitu Brown yesterday! Now to get this all edited today for tomorrow's release. 😁

A timely article! We need systems thinking here in #OntEd as the interest holders are not engaged in decision-making in any meaningful way.

"Chile’s voucher program has been widely studied and largely found to have exacerbated inequality, reduced public school enrollment and minimal to no impact on student achievement." www.newamerica.org/insights/chi...

"[Private schools] are often regarded as superior to public schools, despite mixed evidence supporting this belief...As more families chose private education, these schools began selecting high-achieving students through entrance exams and parent interviews, which acted as gatekeepers."

2006: "...We find no evidence that choice improved average educational outcomes as measured by test scores, repetition rates, and years of schooling. However, we find evidence that the voucher program led to increased sorting, as the 'best' public school students left for the private sector."

"Studies of the voucher system in Chile show that an unregulated voucher system leads to unimproved test scores and greater achievement gaps between the rich and the poor. Only through heavily regulating their voucher system did Chile improve its academic achievement levels."

And more than write, how do we get students to *commune* with real, authentic audiences?

I kind of wonder if we are creating the conditions where people will learn how to read but not how to write. Where, in other words, we can consume information without the ability to analyze or produce it.

A #thread on behaviour and self-regulation. 🧵⬇️