Steve Scarfe, PhD

National security consultant, school principal, math teacher, DHS special agent, Marine Corps officer, VT Hokie

[Steve Scarfe, PhD @MrScarfe]

@testholm @CivilEngDis They have these in Saudi Arabia near Riyadh
Looks like it too

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@Thewsauce @Brady_H Whoop strap

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@arotherham And Fairfax

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@siobhan_huggins @BiggestComeback @reallyoptimized Rutabaga

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@_ZachGriff @united That is horrible and disorienting

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@MrDanielBuck Link please?

[Greg Ashman @greg_ashman]

The largest education experiment ever run is one that most teachers and even many education professors do not know about.

Why? It is an intriguing story 🧵

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@TheEpicStats This is misleading - there are 11 federal holidays

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

Oxford psychologist Lucy Foulkes: “Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work.”

“Researchers have now run many studies testing the impact of universal school mental-health interventions and have found that they don’t really improve mental health. When improvements are found, they’re small – a tiny average shift on a symptom questionnaire – and the quality of the research is often poor, meaning it’s hard to trust the findings. The best-designed studies show that interventions don’t work at all: no improvement in mental health symptoms, either immediately after the course of lessons or later down the line.

In fact, some studies have found that universal mental-health lessons actually make things worse.”

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@marcportermagee This is probably one of the most underrated topics that isn't getting enough attention right now. This is only 15 years away! Huge economic implications beyond the impact on education.

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They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.
Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.
https://t.co/AQcK7DSpmg

(no paywall for this link)
“It’s a pointless exercise,” said Stan Oklobdzija, a Tulane University assistant professor of political science. “It’s like going to the gym and having robots lift the weights for you.”

[PsyPost.org @PsyPost]

New research suggests that the shift from handwriting to digital tools in early education may come at a cost. In an experiment with 5-year-olds, those who practiced writing by hand showed better letter naming, spelling, and word reading than those who… https://t.co/u0jTQ4S6RP

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@mikehoffmann Course

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@mikehoffmann Course

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@ianwhite21 @arotherham

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@SonsofSatVT It would be helpful to know whether we can get tickets first....

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New study: a principal’s impact on test scores is much smaller than previously believed.

The study found that existing approaches linking principals to test scores are flawed and attribute effects to principals that aren’t under their control.

https://t.co/q44sFUqaW9