2:53 p.m.
Was revisiting this- as some people I know are involved at the state level.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/kids-reading-scores-have-soared-in...
My guess- only a matter of time before it is debunked out of existence, not really helped
by the current progressive left who seems to undercut evidence in education. Don’t really
understand why, because in other areas- they promote evidence (e.g., environment) but that
has been the repeated trend in educational politics for as long as I have been in the
field.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2023/7/18/23799124/mississippi-miracle-test-sco...
We have in the past argued for a right to an education, right to a special education- but
then- we need to follow it up with a right to read, a right to critical thinking, right to
quality teaching, right to numeracy, right to a safe and respectful learning environment,
right to social-emotional well-being, right to fair and consistent discipline, right to a
positive school climate, right to specially designed instruction, right to evidence-based
supportive interventions, and in this climate- perhaps start making the case that the
“disenfranchised and marginalized” have a right to evidence-based practice as well-
something the SJ folks don’t seem to want to talk about….or at least when I mention it-
the room gets awfully quiet- need to make the case for evidence informed justice in
special education and disability.
If you listen to the Doug Canine talk- he makes a strong case that the failure to provide
evidence-based practices to minority and disadvantaged is discrimination or at least a sin
of omission- and in reading- there is no other area that we know what to do- we have
repeated decades of research from basic research in neuroscience and eye tracking to
cognitive psychology to reading disabilities on how to teach reading- as he says-
providing non-evidence based instruction to students of color is a form of unintended
racism- it is something we know how to do- but won’t because of ideology.
https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/play/Mn-Gem1_NIpfmDItpXetzoP73Sa6RvSVw1KbowW_...
Things to thing about- MDB