Rob Schläpfer

How do we prepare young people to flourish? By promoting high-quality *American* Education grounded in The Science of Learning and Liberal Democratic values.

[Rob Schläpfer @OregonEdProject]

Learning isn’t fun. It’s hard work for almost all of us, especially at the beginning. Education is a novel, human-created accelerator of our brains. The goal is to ensure that every child is literate, numerate, widely read, and knowledgeable — none of which comes naturally to us or can be obtained without significant effort.

Read the new investigation on The Science of Learning from the Oregon Education Project.

https://t.co/wubOoAqZNo

[Rob Schläpfer @OregonEdProject]

@KimRice28 Delusional.

[Rob Schläpfer @OregonEdProject]

@ProgMagazineUK @itspetergabriel Musicians like Gabriel are much too ignorant to render political advice. Peter’s never had a job.

[Commentary - Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

Africa’s poverty is not a mystery created by outsiders. For most of human history, poverty was the global norm. What requires explanation is how some societies escaped it—through markets, property rights, and skills—not why others stayed poor.

[Rob Schläpfer @OregonEdProject]

Social Contagion.

[City Journal @CityJournal]

Diagnoses of gender dysphoria among minors skyrocketed in Washington between 2017 and 2023, especially among girls. Rates more than doubled for teen girls ages 12–17 and almost tripled for boys in that age group. For children and young teens in the 8–12 age group, rates grew 3.5 times for girls and almost doubled for boys.

(Note: the apparent drop-off in 2023 may be due to incomplete data for that year.)

[City Journal @CityJournal]

NEW: In 2022, rate of a transgender-related diagnosis among teen girls in Washington was nearly 600 times greater than historic adult rates, and among teen boys nearly 60 times greater. In the 8–12 age group, it was roughly 240 times greater for girls and 11 times greater for boys.

A bare minimum of 15,437 minors in the state had a transgender-related diagnosis on their health insurance claims between 2017 and 2023.

The percentage of Washington teens with a transgender-related diagnosis in 2022 was about 19 times the prevalence of pediatric Type 2 diabetes, a condition the American Diabetes Association’s journal Diabetes Care characterized in 2023 as "an awakening epidemic."

Via @LeorSapir: https://t.co/kTswtlhAjL

[Education Next @EducationNext]

"Parents don’t want their kids to be left behind. Since schools are struggling and the world is changing, they hope a classroom full of cool tech means their kids will be up to speed." https://t.co/i6GwNAEf2y

[SCOTUS Wire @scotus_wire]

BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged with violating the Espionage Act for allegedly directing the disclosure of national defense information to a reporter in 2016. The case is assigned to Judge Trevor McFadden in Washington, D.C.

[Robert Pondiscio @rpondiscio]

You know what’s joyless? Illiteracy. You know what else? Being so poorly educated that you are at the mercy of relying on people to explain things to you and hoping they’re not misleading you.

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

“It shouldn’t be heresy to believe that before kids can learn deeply and enthusiastically, they must be taught.”

[Rob Schläpfer @OregonEdProject]

She’s right. But if teachers don’t know how children learn, and use practices that are demonstrated to he ineffective, it will not raise test scores much.

[Oregon Discussion @ORDiscussion]

Oregon students can lose nearly a year of classroom time compared to Washington peers. Christine Drazan says low instructional-time standards, uneven definitions, and chronic absenteeism are shortchanging kids.

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

Training citizens on jury nullification is only the latest assault on the integrity of our courts. Long supported by far-left law professors and pundits, it encourages potential jurors to disregard the evidence and the law under claims of social justice. https://t.co/eG5RW6RpXv

[Human Progress @HumanProgress]

If autism were truly increasing because of environmental toxins, we would expect to see growth across all levels of severity—not just on the low end.

In fact, between 2000 and 2016, there was a 20% drop in the prevalence of moderate or severe autism.

From @AdamOmaryPhD: https://t.co/9DwviYC8tq

[Commentary - Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

“It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medications somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medications and a government bureaucracy to administer ‘universal health care.’”

- Thomas Sowell

[Rob Schläpfer @OregonEdProject]

This is demonstrably true.

[Swaroop Nagaraj @SwaroopNeo]

The reason why traditional news media sucks these days is because 'objective reporting' requires a masculine-coded respect for unyielding reality, even if that reality hurts people's feelings. Journalism was the fourth estate of society when it was still masculine coded and required — adversarial questioning, strict adherence to facts and rigorous investigation.

Since the 80s, legacy media has mass-hired women and adopted a feminine preference for social harmony over adversarial truth-seeking. Now they are crying that the walls of their narrative-controlled safe spaces have been breached, and they actually have to compete for audience trust.

[Hoover Institution @HooverInst]

Ian Rowe reflects on his high school alma mater, where students, regardless of background, were required to take the same rigorous entrance exam to gain admission.

Drawing on Thomas Sowell's ideas, @IanVRowe argues that eliminating objective standards denies students the opportunity to prove that they can compete and succeed on equal footing.

Watch The Sowell Legacy on Hoover+: https://t.co/utL53wFBUO

[Rob Schläpfer @OregonEdProject]

The editorial board of The Oregonian reflects a poverty of thinking, which undergirds the entire agenda of this propaganda platform. Truly the enemy of rational thought captured by weaponized empathy in the pursuit of pathological altruism.

[The Oregonian @Oregonian]

The safety of our schools should never have to depend on the heroics of individuals, but that's what helped limit the loss of life at Silver Rail Elementary School, the editorial board writes. Legislators now must show some courage of their own.

[Rob Schläpfer @OregonEdProject]

When will the administration address Oregon’s race-obsessed schools?

[Scott Turner @SecretaryTurner]

Multnomah County’s DEI points system prioritized homeless housing by race and national origin.

That ends today.

Unlawful DEI scoring system gone. Applicants rescored on lawful criteria. Taxpayer dollars based on need — not identity.

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

For years progressive educators campaigned against knowledge rich/explicit instruction and advocated for teachers to be the "guide on the side" with students discovering things for themselves.
AI now offers the possibility of that in the next few years and they are all "NO NOT LIKE THAT"

[Rob Schläpfer @OregonEdProject]

@Salem_Statesman Propaganda.

[Rob Schläpfer @OregonEdProject]

@ms_katywalsh @Ready4rigor @researchEDCan Propaganda.