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Dec 6 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Massachusetts has updated its curriculum maps, making it easier to find out which curriculum is used in local schools.

HT @MASchoolsK12 @ms_tarca & team!

Recall that MA is one of only 3 states with such an open database.

profiles.doe.mass.edu/statereport/Cu…
The other two are Wisconsin: wimaterialsmatter.org

And Rhode Island: ride.ri.gov/InstructionAss…

Why aren’t there 47 others, you ask?

Very good question.

@CCSSO @SecCardona
Here’s a thread unpacking the curriculum landscape in MA, including the likelihood that use of #TCRWP and @FountasPinnell products / approaches is likely understated by the tool.

As you’ll see, it marked the week that I learned about the WI and RI curriculum maps.
One to watch:
Once more, praise for this MA effort to nudge low-rated curriculum out of its schools:

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Dec 7
A child was raped in a Loudon County school. A grand jury just called it preventable.

Its report does not mince words about the system failure in Loudon schools & law enforcement.

And… Media avoided / distorted the story, BC politics.

@arotherham is 🎯
eduwonk.substack.com/p/loudoun-coun…
Finally, @washingtonpost is reporting this story for what it is: a horrifying example of incompetence and leadership failure.

Here’s @hannah_natanson’s coverage today w @jjouvenal.

But you wouldn’t recognize this situation in Natanson’s earlier work.

washingtonpost.com/education/2022… Image
As this story was emerging, @hannah_natanson was painting Loudon County as a culture wars exemplar.

Read this coverage.

You’d have no idea that a student had just been sodomized in a school bathroom, and this was a critical source of parent anger.

washingtonpost.com/local/educatio…
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Aug 1
Frankel’s reporting only shows 1 of 27 parents adopting an anti-vaccine position.

So why is @sheeraf allowed to conflate anti-mandate positions with anti-vaxx positions?

👉They are different.

That’s just the start of the issues w this column.

Cc: @puiwingtam @ellenjpollock1
.@sheeraf’s sources are speaking out to make clear that they are not anti-vaccine.

👇

This raises serious questions about the integrity of this reporting.
I’m particularly dismayed by this:

“They shared notes & online articles — many of them misleading — about the reopening of schools and the efficacy of vaccines & masks.”

RE misleading articles, @sheeraf links to article from Mar. ‘20.

The #openschools movement didn’t exist+ Image
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Jul 30
Uvalde shooter ‘was identified as “at risk” academically by 3rd grade & experienced bullying in elementary school. He harbored bad memories of 4th grade in particular… it was in his former fourth-grade classroom where he eventually committed’ the shooting
motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
That is such a chilling detail.

Then everything went downhill after school closures. Image
Back to his earlier educational experience…

He was Googling for information about dyslexia, y’all.
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Jun 30
Dear @JeromeAdamsMD,

On behalf of the many parents who read the intl data on school reopening, said we could safely open schools in the face of resistance or silence from our leaders, and were 100% right:

Yes, sometimes the mom has the better read of the data. Image
.@KelleyKga is batting 1,000 in her COVID data analysis, and her (unpaid!) work has yielded a number of corrections.

This sort of disdain is not a good look in a country that, *ahem*, made its share of mistakes in how it approached COVID and children.
Here’s a BMJ award winner commending the study authors who misrepresented COVID mortality vs other causes in children for revising their work, based on @KelleyKga’s careful eye.

Is this enough of a credential for you, @JeromeAdamsMD?
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Jun 14
This is HUGE:

Tennessee becomes first state to announce higher reading outcomes than pre-pandemic, with higher ELA proficiency than 2019.

"The highest proficiency the state has seen in the last five years" in BOTH elem & HS.

#Reading360 pays off!

tn.gov/education/news… Image
Y’all know that @TNedu has been pulling out all the stops on literacy.

Its #Reading360 teacher training, developed by @TNedu in partnership with @TNTP has earned, incredibly-high marks.

99.5%! This is like the unicorn of training.
But the really distinguishing thing that Tennessee did was get high-quality curriculum into virtually every district, as @lisacoons10 explained to @natwexler.

That #TNBestForAll initiative predated the pandemic, and set the foundation for what followed.

forbes.com/sites/nataliew…
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Jun 1
I’m almost charmed by @galbeckerman’s belief that anyone cares about American children and their needs.

By my observation in the COVID era: hardly at all.

theatlantic.com/family/archive…
When New York City schools were poised to close, my kid was on the front lines of that fight.

I still see her in @AP photos from the first parent protest of school closures.

Guess how much it mattered?
I’m pretty sure I’ve tweeted more videos of kids & their parents speaking out about school closures than any American.

I’ve tweeted elementary schoolkids, high school athletes, underprivileged & privileged kids, Black, Hispanic, AAPA, white kids.

My kid.

None registered.
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