Ling Huang
@FightFuzzyMath
@UCBerkeley econ PhD. Won @PKU1898 teaching award. Fighting against fuzzy Reform Math that stultifies global children & imperils civilizations. ** http://rb.gy/amoc52
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The glaring mistakes in Jo Boaler's new book "Math-ish" reveal her unsolid and erroneous conceptual understanding of fractions and simple multiplication. If anything, the mistakes suggest weak procedural fluency and vague conceptual understanding reinforce each other.
Today in things every teacher, administrator, superintendent, and education policymaker should know.
Critical thinking is not a matter of teaching critical thinking. It is domain specific, knowledge dependent and reliant upon transfer that doesn't take too much of a leap from one context to another. I cannot think critically as a mechanic one minute, and a doctor the next.
Here's @C_Hendrick talking about the engagement illusion in the latest episode of Chalk & Talk. Engagement does not imply learning! Link to episode below ⬇️
Knowledge rich curricula, explicit instruction, retrieval practice, checks for understanding, high behaviour, expectations cost much less than an iPad or chrome book for every child and are far more effective.
It's worth noting that Mississippi made massive improvements in the lowest-performing groups with one of the smallest per-pupil expenditures in the nation.
This video on productive struggle from @burnsmk1 is a must watch! "It is inaccurate to look at this data and say productive struggle was effective for students in 2nd -5th grade. It wasn’t even reliably effective for 6th to 10th graders" @greg_ashman youtu.be/44pPwSBo7jg?si…
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Can You Use Productive Struggle for Initial Instruction in Reading...
The tale of two curriculums One is based on a constructivist perspective, the other is Direct Instruction. Same topic. Same kid. One gives a thousand times more practice!!!
Yesterday, I talked to a school board member in a rural district of about 2500 students. Last year, they signed contracts with three separate mental health providers. We need to talk about how “mental health” has taken priority over education in public schools & how it’s actually…
I have a feeling that many of America’s smartest young people falter when they reach college level STEM courses because they have received extremely defective preparation in K-12. NGSS is exacerbating this. This is why foreign students dominate these departments.
“Schools of education…make of teaching an elaborate and largely incomprehensible pseudoscience instead of the essentially clear and straightforward task it should be” Harvard Red Book, 1945
A teacher isn’t a content creator. Properly, a teacher is a custodian of civilization. When you swap out the canon for an ethos of entertainment and self-reflection, the class becomes akin to a TikTok channel: plenty of engagement, but no inheritance.
‘New England schools are failing – and ‘nobody seems to care’ Our math and reading scores have been declining for a decade. The “Southern Surge” should be a wake-up call.’ Outstanding new @BostonGlobe coverage juxtaposes the Southern Surge with the New England Plunge. This…
The most important graph in American education right now
I was the founder of the Knowledge Matters campaign back in the day. So it was a special honor to be invited to be part of their new podcast. Do give it a listen.
📢An argument for shared knowledge is an argument for literacy!📚 🧠In Ep. 1 of the #HistoryMatters podcast, @rpondiscio explains what E.D. Hirsch Jr. has pointed out for decades: “Reading is…more than decoding the words. It is comprehension.”🎤 🎧 bit.ly/4mNQJIR
It has arrived, Instructional Illusions, by Paul Kirschner, Carl Hendrick, and Jim Heal, and it is as good as I hoped it would be! Each chapter is brief but packed with essential knowledge. Just two of my favorite quotes from Chapter 1: The Engagement Illusion. “Unmasking this…
The promise to "meet students where they are" often becomes a policy of keeping them there.
This is deeply irresponsible, @rweingarten. We have been learning hard lessons in recent weeks about extreme political rhetoric and its impact on unstable minds. Explicit comparisons to the current administration and Nazism is outside the lines of acceptable discourse. You *must*…
Randi Weingarten says she wears a paperclip now because teachers wore paperclips as "a resistance against the Nazis" in Norway. She then calls on everyone to protest President Trump and to tell him: "Do not take our freedoms away. Do not take our democracy away."
This is a fascinating discussion about AI & education. Calculators didn't replace the need to learn basic math & AI doesn't replace the need to be able to write. theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/machi…
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AI is upending higher education. Is that a bad thing?
This isn’t just about how we teach and how we learn – it’s about the future of how we think
When you put it like that, stunning!
American education is suffering under a tyranny of stupid, patently idiotic ideas Stop trying to reinvent education. Cursive handwriting. Exacting behavioral expectations. Great books. Direct instruction. Rote practice. Memorize poetry. This is the way.
Yesterday, I communicated with yet another parent whose child goes to a DoDEA Americas school and has been pushing back on the open concept, 21st Century classrooms. Apparently, many families with kids in 4th grade are homeschooling to avoid the chaos of these classrooms. 1/
In many states, the union protections are so strong, the teachers will push back against the additional workload of teaching phonics-based reading. Oakland unified was doing it for their minority-majority, high at-risk population and the union bargained against it, won, and…
wrote today about how even if you've heard of Mississippi's surge in reading scores, you're probably underestimating it:
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