Was a lawyer, now a primary teacher. Interested in politics, chess, citizenship and education especially reading and maths. Has lived in 🇯🇵🇰🇷and now in 🇱🇦. https://open.substack.com/pub/markgoodrich
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Just a sensational essay from @samfr.bsky.social on educational inequality and why you can’t actually close the gap. I can think of few more levers that might help but Sam is absolutely right that ranking is a function of educational systems that has consequences.
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
I feel like it’s a week for sharing lovely stories so here’s another one.
Also, you have really have to read about the insanity of the Suneung if you are not familiar with it.
If you need a break from the grim news out of Belfast…
At some point, I swear I am going to write something about why you should teach (mainly) with whole texts so feel free to hit me up with your hot takes.
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Some slightly good news in that children's reading outside school has not continued its seemingly inexorable decline. Need to have a few years of growth before we can be sure it's a real trend though.
literacytrust.org.uk/reading-for-...
Interesting interview with Tim Shanahan for @tesmagazine.bsky.social. As usual, he says some interesting and valuable things but I remain completely unconvinced when he talks about whole books vs extracts. (He admits to having a conflict).
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
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This is a rather lovely story.
I wrote a poem about my son - years later it appeared on his exam paper www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I shouldn’t be surprised by this but the scale of misinformation on X is just staggering. Main topic - immigration, of course.
As usual, lots of fascinating things in the monthly round-up of research from @carlhendrick.substack.com but the *most widely-cited paper on the learning benefits of AI* has been formally withdrawn is certainly the standout!
open.substack.com/pub/carlhend...
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Emily Cullen says she couldn't believe it when her son told her about the poem, which she had written seven years earlier.
