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On one of the social media platforms I visit, there was a set of threads recently on the science of reading and three-cuing, a now-disdained prompt for early readers having difficulty with a word. As I understand it, three-cuing is a set of three prompts to guess the word. I’m not a fan of encouraging […]

The AFT’s initiative on LLMs, and teachers’

In my social media feeds recently, I’ve seen debate over the decision by the American Federation of Teachers to partner with Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic to open a National Academy for AI Instruction. The July 8 press release describes the goal as “a national model for AI-integrated curriculum and teaching that puts educators in the driver’s seat.” […]

The Supreme Court is broken

I write this from Seoul, at the end of a week-long stay that began for me with the International Conference on Education Research and is ending with reading the news that the U.S. Supreme Court has granted yet another emergency order to relieve the Trump administration of the obligations under the law, in this case removing a […]

No guarantees

When I last wrote a blog entry, it was at the end of 2023. Six weeks before, while I was in Miami for a meeting, my daughter had found my wife unresponsive one morning and called 911. Elizabeth had extremely low blood sugar and came home after half a day in the ER, alive thanks […]