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Tom Loveless

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1 year

In 1992, 72% of 4th graders scored below proficient on the NAEP reading assessment. Today, those kids are 40-41 years old. They went on to earn 4-year college and advanced degrees at a rate surpassing all generations before them. My latest post:

Literacy and NAEP Proficient — Tom Loveless

In February, 2023 Bari Weiss produced a podcast, “Why 65% of Fourth Graders Can't Really Read” and Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist, wrote “Two-Thirds of Kids Struggle to Read, and We Know...

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9 years

This is still my all time favorite math explanation.

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I’m troubled by the number of experts giving advice on reopening schools who don’t know much about the logistics of operating schools

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Two large urban districts in Florida, predominantly Black and Hispanic, provide mathematically talented students with the opportunity to accelerate through middle school math courses. When these students enter high school...

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they will have already completed Algebra I and Geometry. They begin high school two years ahead of students in San Francisco, opening up greater opportunities to take Advanced Placement (AP) courses in later years. Which system is more equitable?

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@DanaGoldstein The causal connection is faulty. Gifted programs flourished in the late 1960s and 1970s when special ed and bilingual programs also flourished. It was the awareness that the exact same schooling for all wasn't serving all students well that led to G&T.

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I've read three times today that about 2/3 of kids read below grade level. That's not true. About 2/3 score below proficient on both math and reading. Proficient is not grade level. The exaggerations lead parents to reject test scores (they know their kids can read).

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3 years

@DeAngelisCorey I love when conservatives praise state centralization of education and liberals line up on the side of local control. It's a beautiful thing. Next up, a parade of lawyers making $$$ off both sides.

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8 months

Middle school algebra will be on the March 2024 ballot in San Francisco.

Why SF supes are weighing in on school curriculum

Supervisor Walton said a math ballot measure is "misleading voters."

www.sfexaminer.com

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8 months

The 2023 Math Framework is an embarrassment to the state. Future policy analysts will use it as an example of sloppy governance.

Jelani Nelson

@minilek

8 months

Many know of Brian Conrad's claims of 'citation misrepresentation' in the CA Math Framework (CMF) but don't know details. In this thread I'll describe just 1 example amongst his 31 pgs of comment (, and some of ). It's egregious. 🧵

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"Scoring below proficient doesn’t mean 'can’t really read' or 'struggling to read.' It doesn’t even mean 'below grade level in reading,' one of the milder distortions." My latest post, "Literacy and NAEP Proficient"

Literacy and NAEP Proficient — Tom Loveless

In February, 2023 Bari Weiss produced a podcast, “Why 65% of Fourth Graders Can't Really Read” and Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist, wrote “Two-Thirds of Kids Struggle to Read, and We Know...

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8 months

It was claimed that students could gain 2.8 years of math learning (much larger than pandemic losses) by attending a summer camp of 18 days.

More Evidence that the California Math Framework Cites Flawed Research

Stanford summer camp study is dropped after criticism

www.educationnext.org

Save Math

@savemathnow

8 months

The youcubed summer math camp claims seem to have been dropped from the CMF Oct. 2023 version after they received scrutiny from @tomloveless99 .

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Jo Boaler cannot claim victimhood. Note to young math-ed scholars. Those of you who thought a claim of 2.8 years of progress from summer school was bogus were right! Don't be bullied by the NCTM-Boaler math establishment! Insist on empirical evidence! You are the hope.

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1 year

Jargon alert. UDL stands for Universal Design for Learning. It's a faddish approach to creating lessons for heterogeneous classes so that all students can "access" the material. @greg_ashman has debunked the scant research literature behind UDL.

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2 years

The 44-year history of the 90th-10th percentile achievement gap on the long term trend NAEP, 9 year olds in math. Starts out huge, narrows into the 1990s, stays flat until 2008, then begins to widen. Blows out in 2020-2022.

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My letter to the editors of AMS Notices regarding the claim of 2.8 years of growth from attending a math summer camp.

American Mathematical Society

Advancing research. Creating connections.

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2 years

Most people don't understand how high NAEP proficient is. A longitudinal study found that those scoring proficient as 12th graders in 1992 (79.0%) earned college degrees by 2000 at about the same rate as those who took calculus in high school (81.1%).

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2 years

Honest question. Would you be concerned if a student at the end of 2nd or 3rd grade hadn't memorized the letters of the alphabet, and by that, I mean simply knowing them automatically on sight? I would. And no use of strategies (a song or counting on) would alleviate that concern

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3 months

No, the one room schoolhouse was a hellhole. Ages 3-20 attended about 60 days per year, brought their own books from home, were taught by teachers with little education or training, and suffered in poorly heated rooms in winter and unbearable heat in summer. Horrible!

Tara Ann Thieke

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3 months

The one room schoolhouse from 7-16 was a far healthier model than factory care from 3 months to 25. Children need to be known in a living community.

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A much smarter, more equitable policy than Algebra for none. Assign promising students to Alg 1 pipeline and require op-out. | Dallas ISD’s Opt-Out Policy Dramatically Boosts Diversity in Its Honors Classes @The74

Dallas ISD’s Opt-Out Policy Dramatically Boosts Diversity in Its Honors Classes

A 2019 policy change increased the number of Hispanic, Black & English learner children — the majority of Dallas students — without decreasing scores.

www.the74million.org

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4 months

The last time NAEP reported scores for private schools was in 2013. More than one-third (39%) of private school 8th graders scored below proficient. Would that many parents actually pay for below grade level reading skills?

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1 year

I wish education pundits read more education history. This classic Larry Cuban essay was published in Educational Researcher (1990).

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3 years

I'm struck by how #AEFP tweets seem to be about having fun and #AERA tweets seem to be about stressing over following rules correctly.

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5 years

The #PISA2018 results are out. Generally, countries scored within an expected range given their past records. Except one. The scores are astonishing for B-S-J-G, an acronym for the four Chinese provinces that participated (Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Guangdong).

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Tom Loveless

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3 years

As I get older, I believe one of the greatest privileges a person can have is enjoying one's work. I have loved my work in education--teacher, professor, think tank researcher--since I was 25. I'm now 67 and work for nobody, but I continue to do research for the pleasure of it.

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Knowing the right approach in education is not enough. Never. I'm always astonished at the ignorance of how difficult it is to translate policy into practice, and then practice into producing student achievement.

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2 years

The assertion that students of color are turned off by math lacks evidence. The NAEP student survey asks students to repond to a prompt declaring, "I enjoy doing math." Here are the results from 2019, grades 8 and 12. Source: NAEP Data Explorer.

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8 months

Excellent article by Holly Korbey on the the need for practice and memorization in learning foundational math skills. | Should More Time Be Spent Learning Math Facts?

Should More Time Be Spent Learning Math Facts?

As schools nationwide contend with declining math scores, some districts are dedicating more time to the practice of foundational skills.

www.edutopia.org

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

4 months

I want to sum up some tweets I've sent today. College and career readiness is a bogus concept in terms of standards and assessment. Proficient on NAEP or state tests is not grade level. I wrote a book explaining:

Why Common Core failed | Brookings

Promising beginnings, disappointing outcomes.

www.brookings.edu

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@tomloveless99

3 years

Dems are on the losing side of the education culture wars. Will it cost the VA governor race? Probably.

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

11 months

35 years ago I left a job I loved (teaching 6th grade), a home I loved (near Sac, CA), and friends and family I loved, and a comfortable life to start a PhD program at the University of Chicago. Lot of debt but best decision ever. Opened so many vistas.

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1 year

Important post by Tim Shanahan. Unfortunate that some popular education pundits pit knowledge and comprehension strategies against each other. They go hand in hand.

Timothy Shanahan

@ReadingShanahan

1 year

Knowledge or comprehension -- what should we teach?

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2 years

Good news from Mississippi. | Third graders score close to pre-pandemic levels in state reading test

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6 years

We are an hour into the NAEP score release. I've been following this event for years. By this time of night, I'd normally see 4-5 ridiculous false causal claims in reporting the scores. Haven't seen any. Kudos to today's press for careful reporting!

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2 years

My latest blog post is on the 2022 California Math Framework: @mpershan @MichaelPetrilli @DTWillingham @P_A_Kirschner @greg_ashman @jfenster

Evidence, Struggling Math Students, and California’s 2022 Math Framework — Tom Loveless

Those are important issues; however, this post is concerned with students on the opposite end of the distribution of achievement: students who struggle with math. Over the past decade, math scores...

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3 months

High dosage tutoring seems to be the best bet for recovery. I was especially encouraged by the experiments showing a blend of human and computer tutoring (alternate days) was as effective as all human. Must reduce labor demands to make a wide scale program viable.

Dylan Wiliam

@dylanwiliam

3 months

A preliminary report into the impact of high dosage tutoring suggests that it works, and can be delivered at scale:

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1 year

To better understand today's battles over reading and math, one should study the reading and math wars of the 20th century. In Oct. 1999, Paul Peterson and I hosted a conference at Harvard that brought together leading protagonists in the 90s debates (and other scholars).

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1 year

I critique the proposed CA math framework, focusing on how basic facts and standard algorithms are handled poorly. The framework diverges from the state's standards--and from research.

Education Next

@EducationNext

1 year

California’s New Math Framework Doesn’t Add Up: It would place Golden State 6th graders years behind the rest of the world—and could eventually skew education in the rest of the U.S., too.

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@tomloveless99

6 months

Please note that the CA Math Framework failed to cite the studies summarized in the IES Practice Guides, the best sources of evidence we have for effectively teaching mathematics.

Anna Stokke

@rastokke

6 months

To help students struggling with math, here's an evidence-based practice guide from Institute of Educational Sciences. (Note this does include timed activities.)

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

2 years

My latest blog post, San Francisco's Detracking Experiment, now available:

Blog — Tom Loveless

Latest blog posts from Tom Loveless.

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1 year

Two amazing facts about Rousseau, the father of modern progressive education. 1. He did not attend school a single day. 2. He abandoned his five children, placing them all in an orphanage.

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3 years

To me, the fact that the two lower quartiles are floundering in math suggests curricular and instructional problems. The increased emphasis on conceptual understanding would be my #1 candidate for investigation.

Joseph Piro

@profpiro

3 years

Researcher @tomloveless99 on declining NAEP math scores between 2012 and 2020: “To me, it suggests that beginning a decade or so ago, something went wrong with how we teach math to younger students." @The74

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Kids are better readers today than they were 30 or 50 years ago. But many children struggle to learn how to read. Exaggerations of the number of struggling readers undermine legitimate efforts to improve literacy. @NickKristof @bariweiss @The74

Literacy and NAEP Proficient — Tom Loveless

In February, 2023 Bari Weiss produced a podcast, “Why 65% of Fourth Graders Can't Really Read” and Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist, wrote “Two-Thirds of Kids Struggle to Read, and We Know...

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2 years

When reviewing statistics on high school graduates, few appreciate the history of the event. It was not until 1950 that more than 50% of the nation's 17-year-olds began regularly earning diplomas. In 1900, it was only 6%-7%, much rarer than graduating from college today.

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@JoinerSandy @BarryGarelick @WorldClassMath @jill_gladstone @libertydocKaren @jane_jrobbins @PioneerBoston @AmericanThinker @DrPegLuksik @DukePesta @carolburris This is a first. In all my years of studying parent protests over curriculum, I have never heard of a publisher taking legal action against parents. MVP will not emerge from this looking good. Neither will the Wake County admin and school board.

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@tomloveless99

2 years

The standards era protected whole lang. and balanced literature. How did it happen? Louisa Moats explained early in the implementation of Common Core: "the CCSS purported to be consistent with research on learning to read, write, and do math, but actually reflected current 1/4

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1 year

Jack Diekmann and I exchange views on the studies of Youcubed summer camps. Claims of 2.8 and 1.6 years of learning gains after a few weeks of camp are based on flawed research, emblematic of the CA math framework's research base.

Stanford Summer Math Camp Defense Doesn’t Add Up, Either

Flawed, non-causal research that the proposed California framework embraces

www.educationnext.org

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5 months

Like so many policies in education, test-optional admissions hurts the students it intends to help.

Prof Dynarski

@dynarski

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Nails it 📈📉

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1 year

I grew up thinking Jonathan Winters was a genius, super funny, and a bit insane. Great memories.

Firecaptain and Jack

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1 year

How many of you remember Jonathan Winters? This is one of his funniest clips from early in his career, about the late 1950s. This is a man who inspired Robin Williams to become a comic. Robin adored Jonathan. You will have to turn up the sound to listen to it.

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Scoring below proficient doesn’t mean “can’t really read” or “struggling to read.” My latest post on "Literacy and NAEP Proficient."

Literacy and NAEP Proficient — Tom Loveless

In February, 2023 Bari Weiss produced a podcast, “Why 65% of Fourth Graders Can't Really Read” and Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist, wrote “Two-Thirds of Kids Struggle to Read, and We Know...

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1 year

Makes sense. Learning does not happen in sweltering classrooms. BTW, the real historical reason schools are closed in summer has to do with heat. Forget the myth of the agrarian calendar, it's nonsense!

Ethan Mollick

@emollick

1 year

Air conditioning is a vital educational tool. Students do worse when its hot. Over 13 years in NYC alone, "upwards of 510,000 exams that otherwise would have passed likely received failing grades due to hot exam conditions," and these failures delayed or stopped 90k graduations!

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6 years

Thank you, Dan Willingham, for continuing to remind people that "there's no good scientific evidence that learning styles actually exist."

Daniel Willingham

@DTWillingham

6 years

Are a visual or auditory learner? @DTWillingham op-ed via @nytopinion

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3 years

@rpondiscio A reminder that "proficient" in reading is a dubious statistic, based on NAEP "proficient" established back in the early 1990s. About half of the 12th graders scoring at basic, which is below proficient, on the 1992 NAEP, went on to earn college degrees by 2000.

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4 months

When I'm asked who is the most powerful progressive education reformer in the world, my answer is not Jo Boaler. It's Andreas Schleicher, who in two decades has managed to elevate PISA's influence over policy, especially the idea that "it isn't what you know that matters...

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When I was involved with organizing public events at Brookings, the main problem was audience members giving speeches instead of asking questions. They would come across as wannabe guest speakers.

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UC committee rules that three popular data science courses do not "even come close to meeting the required standard to be a 'more advanced' course" and "are more akin to data literacy courses."

Jelani Nelson

@minilek

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More generally, they reaffirm what it takes for a course to validate Alg 2. Notably, beyond data science, they also recommend that statistics courses shouldn’t validate Alg 2. They also give guidance on which courses should count as a “4th year recommended math course”. 3/

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3 months

Fun fact. I checked with the CA Commission on Teacher Credentialing to see when my teaching credentials expire. I haven't taught since 1988, but I keep renewing them every 5 years. I worry about forgetting. 2025! I also checked some prominent math reformers in CA. Not licensed.

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Curriculum reform--and its ensuing debates--is a perennial in education. If I had to name one book that is a good starting point for learning about U.S. curriculum reform movements, it would be Herbert M. Kliebard's "The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958."

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2 years

EdWeek with unfortunate reporting on NAEP scores, hinting that changes in scores might correlate with school closures. Correlation is not causation. And NAEP was not built to test causality, not in this manner. Models with a causal warrant can use NAEP data, but they take time.

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1 year

Claim #1 : students lost about 1/2 year of math learning during the pandemic (Kane and Reardon). Claim #2 : Students can gain 1.6-2.8 years of math learning by attending a few weeks of summer camp. Claim #1 is credible. I'm skeptical of #2 .

Stanford Summer Math Camp Defense Doesn’t Add Up, Either

Flawed, non-causal research that the proposed California framework embraces

www.educationnext.org

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7 months

Humbled to have my article on the CA Math Framework so extensively read.

The Top 20 Education Next Articles of 2023

Artificial intelligence, recovering achievement, student behavior draw readers’ interest

www.educationnext.org

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1 year

My comments on the California Math Framework.

My Comments to the California State Board of Education on the proposed Math Framework — Tom Loveless

I write this letter to oppose the proposed California Math Framework. My comments are a distillation of a lengthier analysis presented in the Spring 2023 issue of Education Next, "California's New...

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3 months

I'm a big fan of John Star--and a critic of math ed research--but I don't think he's accurate as quoted. The 2.8 years of progress claim from a summer camp is in a league of its own, like bogus miracle medical cures. Been reading this stuff for about 50 years...this is weird.

TracingWoodgrains

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“Star says the ‘liberties’ Boaler takes are common in the field [of education research].” Not that it isn’t true, but man, what an indictment of the entire field this defense of Jo Boaler is

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What will shock future analysts is how the label "high quality curriculum" was misused. Is there evidence that HQ reading materials teach kids how to read? No, they conform to Common Core. How about the math programs, evidence of effectiveness? No, they conform to CC.

Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

1 month

Yep. Prediction: Illustrative Math will skyrocket in market share as it gains CA state adoption as a program in synch with state's controversial math framework.

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I totally agree, but phonics instruction is both boring and unnecessary for kids who can already read. The goal is the ability to read; once attained, do not persist with phonics.

Elise Lovejoy

@EliseLovejoy

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When people say "Phonics is boring" or is "removes the love from reading".... Learning HOW to read give kids the opportunity to love reading. I volunteer teach 2nd & 3rd gr. intervention at a high needs public school, and this is my own kiddo. He was SO excited to have formed

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2 years

The SFUSD experiment in detracking math became the centerpiece of a massive PR effort. NCTM held up the district as a model. Op-eds spread the false claim that failure rates had fallen. The district's own Smarter Balanced scores showed disturbing trends.

San Francisco's Detracking Experiment | RealClearEducation

www.realcleareducation.com

John Fensterwald

@jfenster

2 years

@mayak46 @alexanderrusso @karenvaites @Stephen_Sawchuk @tomloveless99 @matloff . @SFUnified did not provide the data that Maya and others requested under a public records request; it did not have its study peer-reviewed. I think it is remarkable that drafters of a framework would rely so heavily on one district's suspect data.

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This is correct. No more reviews by panels using scoring rubrics (such as Ed Reports) or testimonials from state policy officials. We need more reliable evidence identifying reading materials that teach kids how to read and math materials that teach kids mathematics.

Mark Anderson

@mandercorn

1 year

Can we stop with the games of creating a rubric and then using it to pretend it says anything substantive about a curriculum? What we need are more empirical studies of the impact of curriculum on the academic outcomes and the reported experiences of real students.

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Classic progressive thinking here. The idea of sitting 5 hours a day is unthinkable. I read at least 5 hours a day, and I do it sitting. Teens spend 5 hours a day on social media or playing video games. Attend a sporting event, see a play or film, read a book, for god's sake.

Alfie Kohn

@alfiekohn

2 months

Ted Sizer urged us to shadow a high school student for a full day or 2 to understand what it's really like to attend a traditional H.S. - & thus how urgent it is to rethink this model of schooling. One teacher did so & emerged shaken. An eye-opening read:

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I stated in a Brown Center Report 20-some years ago that we know more about teaching K-3 reading (heavily decoding) than 4-8 reading (transitioning to heavily comprehension). Still true today. The "content rich" ppl are right, but they are also so wrong.

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The hype over Finland's educational system was driven by PISA scores. PISA is the favorite international assessment of educational progressives. Its constructivist frameworks reflect the current beliefs of Euro ed ministries. Brown Center Reports covered:

The Latest TIMSS and PIRLS Scores | Brookings

In Part I of the 2013 Brown Center Report, Tom Loveless takes a look at the latest results from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) and Trends in International Math and...

www.brookings.edu

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‘Learning outcomes in Finland have declined at a particularly rapid rate in global comparison, reveals a so-called bildung review published by the Ministry of Education & Culture.’

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Tom Loveless

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The August 26, 2018 EdWeek article on ability grouping in elementary reading instruction, , contains several problems. This thread describes seven of them. Apologies for the thread's length. 1/15

Are Classroom Reading Groups the Best Way to Teach Reading? Maybe Not.

Recent studies raise some hard questions about the value of ability-based reading groups.

www.edweek.org

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4 months

It is exciting and gratifying to be a policy analyst in this era. Tonight on X I am arguing with both progressive and traditionalist educators.

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4 months

Thank you to @rastokke for having me on her show. Great questions!

Anna Stokke

@rastokke

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1/2 New episode with the very knowledgeable Tom Loveless @tomloveless99 is published! Discussed: National Math Advisory Panel, math wars, 1989 NCTM Standards, California Math Framework, de-tracking, memorizing math facts & more! @ToddTruitt76508

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

2 years

This paper discusses seven myths about math instruction, but it can also be read as directly refuting the myths that undergird the California Math Framework and modern math reform.

Rebecca Birch

@msrebeccabirch

2 years

On the myths of mathematics instruction - A new research paper that draws a line under what works

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

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In 1999, an expert panel organized by the Dept of Ed in the Clinton Admin named 10 math programs as exemplary or promising. The programs were constructivist in approach, reflecting the tenets of math reform, with many created via NSF funding. Reaction was swift.

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

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EdReports judges curricula for conforming to Common Core (CCSS), not effectiveness. If they don't conform to CCSS, other criteria are not considered.

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

4 years

History teachers. Have your kids look at the 1876 election, which was disputed into the next year, ending with the Compromise of 1877. Repubs traded away Reconstruction and the rights of Blacks in the South, in exchange for R. Hayes taking the presidency. Tilden won pop. vote.

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

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If Siri behaved like NAEP performance levels, a very short play. Me: Siri, what's the temperature outside? Siri: It's freezing! Me: Siri, what's the temperature outside in fahrenheit? Siri: It is 38 degrees. Me: Siri, what are freezing temperatures in fahrenheit?

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

2 years

A lot of bad news in these test scores.

Matthew Ladner

@matthewladner

2 years

Digging into NAEP LTT now, the news is not good. Black 9 year olds for instance saw 28 years of progress reversed between 2020 and 2022 #NAEP

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

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It's certainly prominent in how education policy is made. "Here 's the policy we're going to adopt. Find evidence that supports it."

Nate Joseph

@NateJoseph19

7 months

Just found this gem of a quote from @ReadingShanahan “Reading directors who have decided to commit their teachers to an instructional practice frequently contact me to find out if there is any research supporting that practice. They have already decided the practice must be

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

2 years

Astonishing. 😮

CheesemonkeySF

@cheesemonkeysf

2 years

@ed_edwardson @OxnardTweeter CORRECTION: At the 08/04/21 meeting, the Oxnard School District board was forced to approve an addendum to @joboaler 's contract. She went back & required that they correct the error in the original contract -- she collected $40,000 ($5,000/hour) -- not $20,000 ($2,500/hour).

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

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The LA Times article has it wrong. The CA Math Framework is likely to worsen the plight of struggling students.

Evidence, struggling math students, and California’s 2022 math framework

The proposed California Mathematics Framework generated a storm of controversy when the first draft was released in early 2021. Critics objected to the document’s condemnation of tracking and...

fordhaminstitute.org

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

2 years

2022 NAEP results are out! And they are bad. Compared to 2019, national average scale score losses were (with the abbreviations I’ll be using later) : 4th Grade Reading (4R, -3), 8th Grade Reading (8R, -3), 4th Grade Math (4M, -5), 8th Grade Math (8M, -8). Three big stand outs.

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

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Want to be a reviewer of math instructional materials for the state of California? 2 groups are being recruited: content reviewers (a PhD in math, stats, or comp. sci) and materials reviewers, teachers holding a CA credential with some exp. with standards.

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

2 years

A lot of innocent sounding advocates on Twitter are funded by outside groups. They feast on NAEP score releases or the release of other education indicators. Policy analysis is slow hard work. Beware the quick fix artists.

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

8 years

Making the Grade in America's Cities: Assessing Student Achievement in Urban Districts: via @urbaninstitute

Making the Grade in America's Cities: Assessing Student Achievement in Urban Districts

Many US education reform efforts focus on student performance in large, urban school districts. The National Assessment of Educational Progress’s Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) program...

www.urban.org

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

8 years

You're misleading ppl that NAEP proficient is "grade level. It is not. I hope you will correct the error. @74 @slate @campbell_brown

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

1 year

I offer a critique of the proposed California Math Framework, focusing on the elementary grades. Available at Education Next.

California’s New Math Framework Doesn’t Add Up

It would place Golden State 6th graders years behind the rest of the world—and could eventually skew education in the rest of the U.S., too

www.educationnext.org

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

1 month

I totally agree. Elites think innovation should be imposed on the unwilling via standards, frameworks, and mandates. Truly effective innovations become obvious to practitioners through use. We can't regulate our way to educational excellence.

Ashley Jochim

@aejochim

1 month

@rpondiscio @Maznorthwest @Dyrnwyn @palan57 @tomloveless99 @MichaelPetrilli @AdamPeshek @pfmanna @ArnettTom @arotherham @edpolicyjunkie @vkoganpolisci @JohannNeem @DuellSays @RobertEnlow @jal_mehta @JonValant @douglasharris99 @FlowTap1 I don’t disagree but among the people who influence reform - such as funders - the unbridled enthusiasm for “innovation” is troubling & points to poor understanding of the underlying technology of schooling. Addressing this is a matter of professionalism, not regulation.

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

3 years

Here's an op-ed on my new book coming out in April, published by Harvard Education Press. Why Common Core failed via @BrookingsInst

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

5 months

Daylight savings is only 9 days away. And that's a wonderful thing.

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

1 year

About 35 years ago, June 10, 1988, I taught 6th grade for my last day. Packed up to move from Sac, CA to Chicago, to pursue a PhD. Sad to leave a job I loved, excited for what lay ahead. UChicago, Harvard, and Brookings brought so many awesome opportunities. Forever thankful.

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@tomloveless99

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To opponents of the California Math Framework: three points. Sorry, it will easily pass next week. But now the battle ground shifts to (1) textbook and materials adoption, (2) the $$$ and restrictions the state commits to imp, (3) LEAs, who can ignore the framework if they want.

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

2 months

Recognition for two teachers in my life. I was a squrrely 8-9 yr old. My 2nd grade teacher, Lois Knapp, suggested I stand by my desk when sitting still was too hard. My 3rd grade teacher, Ruth Montgomery, would swing by my desk, drop a pointed adjective (e.g, obnoxious), which

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

1 year

It's troubling that the CA Dept of Ed took this action in the first place. The fact that they continue to defend it is shocking. You are in a hole...stop digging!

Tom Dee

@ProfTDee

1 year

Harvard Law's First Amendment experts rally to Stanford professor’s defense via @edsource

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

3 years

This might be the best weekend of NFL football I have ever watched.

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

5 months

Thank you, Jelani Nelson ( @minilek ), for fighting to make sure that students are adequately prepared for STEM majors in college. Just Equations is ideologically driven and serves to weaken math throughout K-12.

Jelani Nelson

@minilek

5 months

1) A workgroup of UC-wide experts writes a report on the inadequacy of certain high school data science curricula as satisfying UC admissions requirements for mathematics. It was chaired by the “Director of Pedagogy” for a data science major who also co-created the most popular

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

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True in England and even truer in the U.S., with its 50 states, 16,000 districts, 90+ thousand schools and 3.2 million teachers. It's a primary reason why Common Core failed, as I explained in my recent book.

Daisy Christodoulou

@daisychristo

2 months

I think a lot of non-educationalists think that the national curriculum is a really precise guide to every lesson a student will have, and so getting something "on the curriculum" is a massive deal. It isn't.

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

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Finally getting around to studying EdWeek's 2023 survey of K-12 math teachers and post-secondary educators (which include both math and math ed.

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Tom Loveless

@tomloveless99

3 months

One of the greatest edu books.

Anna Stokke

@rastokke

3 months

This showed up at work today. Did you send this to me @C_Hendrick @P_A_Kirschner ? Thank you! I have my own little library for math students in the education program.

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