I've largely made peace with the fact that about once a year somebody will tell me, unbidden, that I remind them of Luna Lovegood but I am still reeling from that time a coworker told me she thought my aesthetic was dark academia

that scarf pairs really well with the jacket!

i'm picturing it in my mind... quite apposite...

oh that stinks, bummer :-(

feels like a bit of a gimme answer but you do sit right next to ishmael in my head

I'm glad that my annoyed-at-this-article-for-five-years screed makes sense, lol

systems were not directly applicable as an instructional method"), (b) only one of several theorists working in the same space, and (c) a 91-year-old man just a year from death. not exactly supervillain stuff! www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

very different! for good or for ill a teacher's practice is substantially driven by their training and their own history in K-12!) also the quote they paraphrase is from (a) a theorist, not somebody who actually produced any of the whole-language-ed systems (per edweek, he "insisted that the cueing

where those techniques are least appropriate. and frankly i would expect journalists to be able to pick up the bit of legerdemain the article does, which is confounding an edweek K-2 & special education teacher survey on materials—programs, textbooks—with the methods actually practiced. (likely

reading instruction method in america. the common core standards require phonics! the problem identified in the article is the persistence of these techniques in otherwise better-substantiated reading education systems, and specifically their use for students who are struggling with reading,