Colleen Grady

Opinions are mine and mine alone.

[Colleen Grady @ColleenGrady]

"Justice in education isn’t realized through uniformity; it’s realized by ensuring that every single child has the best shot at reaching his or her highest potential."

[Andrew Neely @neelyandrew]

"In a perverted version of fairness, we knowingly neglect the special gifts of some kids in the name of equality."

Important piece on public education & ensuring it helps each individual child reach his/her potential by @smarick: https://t.co/A4yLN0O7Pf

[Anna Stokke @rastokke]

Knowledge is the foundation for critical thinking.

In this episode, I talk with Robert Peal about why a knowledge-rich curriculum matters and why critical thinking is an outcome of building knowledge, not the starting point.

🔗 Link below

#ChalkandTalk #CriticalThinking #KnowledgeRich #Education

[The Chase Center @osuchasecenter]

Starting next week, the Salmon P. Chase Center will begin hosting more than 120 high school and middle school teachers in interactive workshops, lectures, and simulations on teaching the Declaration of Independence.

Stay tuned for updates over the next three weeks!

[Fordham Institute OH @OhioGadfly]

Traditional district school supporters are attempting to score short-term political points by conjuring up a disingenuous fiscal narrative. We set the record straight (again) and explain why their efforts are harmful to the ongoing school funding conversation in Ohio.

https://t.co/0VPimTSmqg

[Terry Grier @tgrierhisd]

The schools that improve the fastest are not necessarily the schools with the most data.

They are the schools with leaders willing to make a few high-leverage decisions, align people and resources around them, and execute relentlessly.

[Greg R. Lawson @BuckeyeInstGreg]

Public schools get way more total public funding per student than voucher students do. That includes local $, BUT Ohio likes local control.

If the state to spend more, then should the state make all #education decisions?
@laurahancock @Honesty4OhioEd
https://t.co/9heS348Lit

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

The test-blind experiment has backfired.

Over 1,100 professors are urging the system to bring back the SAT. Why? Because preparation gaps are so severe that instructors must halt lectures to reteach middle school math.

GPAs and AI essays no longer show who is ready for college.

[The College Fix @CollegeFix]

A professor asked his rhetoric and writing class to read a 20-page paper. None of them could complete the assignment.

"This was not a remedial class: These were students who had cleared the admissions process and written essays good enough to get them here. Yet a routine academic reading assignment had defeated them.”

The scholar cited three main problems contributing to the situation: the ramifications of smart phones, AI, and common core.

https://t.co/4ZsReUstlO

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

It used to be a reasonable argument that GPA was a better predictor of college success than a one-off test. But severe grade compression has destroyed that utility.

[Joanne Jacobs @JoanneLeeJacobs]

The polite kid who never learned to read got her first F in 8th grade. "Kind" teachers who passed her along failed her.
https://t.co/GcWJkjJVCz

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

When universities replace intellectual rigor with mass entertainment, they stop being centers of inquiry and start looking like overpriced summer camps. The result: public trust collapses.

[Joanne Jacobs @JoanneLeeJacobs]

Testing reveals "uncomfortable truths." Pretending kids are doing fine when they're not isn't "equity."
https://t.co/BmxvOY1aqO

@ToddTruitt76508 @VodkaPundit @MichaelPetrilli @rickhess99 @Dale_Chu @marcportermagee @esanzi @jenteach13 @karenvaites @ChadAldeman

[School Choice Ohio @SchoolChoiceOH]

🍎 vs. 🍊

What does "accountability" actually mean when it comes to Ohio's private schools?

Our latest #HelpMeUnderstand article explores Ohio SB 443, the push for "apples-to-apples" comparisons, and the oversight already required of schools participating in scholarship programs.

Read more: https://t.co/oc3DKaLePk

[Jen @jenteach13]

You want to fix education?

Stop socially promoting kids. Passing a child who cannot do the work does not help him. It just moves the problem to the next teacher and makes it bigger.

[Terry Grier @tgrierhisd]

Schools rarely fail because they lack initiatives. They fail because they lack focus, disciplined execution, and the courage to stop doing things that don’t work.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Equitable grading = grade inflation = higher graduation rates.

But it also means students are years behind in reading and math while the graduation rates says they’re doing just fine.

[Education Next @EducationNext]

"Legislative wins, no matter how tough, are just an opening act. Reformers used to give me buckets of grief when I said this, complaining that I was denying them the credit they’d earned. That doesn’t make it any less true." https://t.co/mC36oVyRKE

[Education Next @EducationNext]

"The larger point, though, is that the costs of ignorance have gone up—not down—in this modern era." https://t.co/RHE5GeEm6j

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

The more powerful the tech, the more deep content knowledge matters.

[Joanne Jacobs @JoanneLeeJacobs]

Let smart kids get ahead, say most voters -- of all political affiliations.
https://t.co/cGqh9U7EYr

[Joanne Jacobs @JoanneLeeJacobs]

Stop admitting would-be STEM majors who aren't ready for college (or high school) math, says UCalifornia professors. Bring back SAT/ACT scores.
https://t.co/qFvhExEiWH