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Oh the Places You'll Go! Random Walk on Wall Street @profkeithdevlin @JohnAllenPaulos @timchartier @stevenstrogatz
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these cranky comments are nothing short of bizarre. Just why?
Ann Baum@annbaum588h
They need to melt faster. So do the flying monkeys with their vague takes based on nothing.
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Ahistorical post
SoL in the Wild
@SoLInTheWild12 Jun 2025
Replying to @teachbk
And if explicit instruction continues to gain more popularity and traction in the U.S., which it should and will because govts have a responsibility to close the achievement gaps caused by inquiry/discovery methods the last few decades, what will happen to her research? It’s DOA.
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the conversation about math curriculum is never ending #iTeachMath
Karen Vaites
@karenvaitesOct 20
We have been overdue for a conversation about math curriculum, and every teacher I know sounds like this RN.
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"Even in this past decade and a half, reliable descriptions of classroom lessons and surveys of teaching practices are tough to find. Sure, there are journalists who have gone into classrooms and reported what they saw.
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While the dominant teaching tradition since the closing decades of the nineteenth century has been teacher-­centered, each generation of teachers since the 1920s has adopted the vocabulary and selected activities embedded in the student-­centered tradition
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two research-­driven conclusions are consistent... First, teacher-­directed instruction, with a smattering of student-­directed activities, governs most lessons. Second, great variability in teaching due to teacher-­crafted hybrids exists." - Larry Cuban
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some predictions come true
🧠 Typical EduCelebrity 🧠@EduCelebrity20 Nov 2024
I actually like Linda McMahon for Education Secretary. Given how scripted and artificial education has become, I can’t think of a better fit.
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Great news for the wealth and prosperity of the United Kingdom, and the wonderful region of Aberdeen. The U.K. has started drilling in the North Sea, one of the greatest and most prosperous areas of OIL in the World. They should go FULL BLAST!!! This will make the U.K. very wealthy again. TAKE DOWN THE COSTLY AND RIDICULOUS WINDMILLS!
Alexander Russo
@alexanderrussoOct 20
“I just don’t believe, as many of the left seem to, that discipline, measurement, and academic ambition are somehow antithetical to social justice or the human spirit.” Why Is the Left So Bad at Education? - by Ian Leslie ian-leslie.com/p/why-is-the-…

Why Is the Left So Bad at Education?

Lessons From the Story of Nikole Hannah-Jones and Her Daughter

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Lydia Kauppi
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If a Somali commits a crime in Minnesota he’s Somali but if he saves 20 kids on a runaway school bus he’s a Minnesota Man
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A Minnesota man is opening up after he saved nearly 20 children when their school bus driver suffered a medical emergency. Read more: abcnews.link/t1I488m

27-year-old man credited for saving kids, driver in runaway school bus

A 27-year-old Minnesota man is opening up after he saved nearly 20 children when their school bus driver suffered a medical emergency.

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“Ideal national curriculum: hire the best teachers of every course, film their lessons and show them in all the nation’s schools. I’d be happy to to demote myself to classroom aide for these master teachers” - @edudissenter
Samuel Otten@ottensam1 Feb 2023
Replying to @edudissenter
Are you assuming that lessons are all unidirectional lectures from a teacher, to be received by students?
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the day is approaching
Ralph Pantozzi
@mathillustrated7 Jul 2021
(Parody) Someone out there has the goal of eventually explaining all #learning at the subatomic level. Then there will be a set of incontrovertible rules, because, you know, it’s all #physics, and we’re all made of particles. 😂
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James Dixon@MrDixonMath8 Jan 2024
I think I might as well call it a day and quit teaching. #mtcoz #mtbos #iteachmath … a weird list conflating many different ideas and hyperbolic to say the least. A must read.
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: The war in Iran has been won. The only one that likes to keep it going is the fake news.
Department of State
@StateDeptMar 24
PRESIDENT TRUMP: The war in Iran has been won. The only one that likes to keep it going is the fake news.
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Department of State
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: The war in Iran has been won. The only one that likes to keep it going is the fake news.
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students always enter classrooms with some useful prerequisite knowledge. Students formally studying the linear equation for the first time, for example, have had a variety of prior experiences and learning that prepare them for the “new” things they will encounter. #iTeachMath
Greg Ashman
@greg_ashman1 Jul 2025
Replying to @greg_ashman
The implication is that he can use so much inquiry because students usually enter the classroom with lots of knowledge about the topic at hand. How does that happen? Where did they get that from?
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andrea@teachbk12 Jun 2025
If all we did was constructivist, inquiry-based learning, teachers would rightly push back, saying sometimes students require information/steps to succeed. So why, when we're increasingly restricted to teacher-centered, explicit teaching, is it a problem to ask for some inquiry?
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“Numeracy is the ability to understand, reason with, and apply simple numerical concepts; it is the numerical counterpart of literacy”
Greg Ashman
@greg_ashman13h
But why would you call it 'oracy'? It's like calling mathematics 'numeracy'. Why swap out perfectly serviceable everyday words and replace them with pretentious ones?
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“Why don’t they just call literacy “the ability to read and write”? “ who needs fancy words? 🤔
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