Education
Imported from Atacama channel education
When I hear about a low-performing 5th grader, there are a few questions that I ask to set the ground level. perhaps the machine will be able to flesh out this outline.
How much should a student learn?
I find myself considering discussions of a new charter school in Texas, which claims to advance students at 2.5x the grade level progress, in 2 hours per day.
There were 4 California OAH hearings this month.
I see a certain sense that people << want it both ways regarding Special Education.
I recently read two reviews of << Math Academy . https://mikelikejordan.bearblog.dev/how-math-academy-pulled-me-out-of-the-valley-of-despair/ and https://frankhecker.com/2025/02/18/math-academy-part-11/ My takeaways:
the St. Johns College Reading List, freshman year
I cannot endorse the St. John's College approach (all college students, for all 4 years, in the same curriculum, largely based around reading of >100 year old works). But it is interesting enough (and for some students, effective enough) that I also have no interest in arguing against it.
https://authorclaireswinarski.substack.com/p/when-will-i-write-real-books
https://www.educationdaly.us/p/hard-lessons-from-the-new-naep-results
An AAC Augmentative and Alternative Communication device shows pictures, symbols, or words and speaks out loud when someone selects an option.
the concept of "algorithm", in education
yesterday I was a substitute tutor for an hour, for a 5th grade student generally << at a 3rd grade level . I hate phrases like "third grade level", but they are convenient. at least until I make new phrases.
https://www.readnaturally.com/article/hasbrouck-tindal-oral-reading-fluency-chart
[# All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten is a book of short essays by American minister and author Robert Fulghum. It was first published in 1986.
Some languages are very phonetic; the same small number of rules will let you sound out every word.