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Anna Stokke @rastokke.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks to @hollykorbey.bsky.social for covering Ben Solomon's petition to retract the NY Math briefs, which he describes as pseudoscience. Check out her newsletter here: hollykorbey.substack.com/p/when-the-m...

When the math wars win, kids lose

A new report + a new petition call for schools to stop quibbling and use the 'science of math'

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Alex Quigley @alexjquigley.bsky.social · 21d

“We cannot have a perfect inclusion system - inclusion is a process”

This is one of those rare 'must read' articles on the topic of inclusion by @hollykorbey.bsky.social. It explores the realities of the SEND system in the UK & the US.

www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Is England on the right path for inclusion?

In both England and the US, SEND provision suffers from poor funding, a lack of trained professionals and system overwhelm. But their responses to these challenges have been very different, with the U...

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Jon Severs @jonsevers.bsky.social · 21d

The US and UK are both in a spiral of increasing SEND requirements but are taking different paths in response - what can each show the other about the best way forward for pupils and staff?

Fascinating deep dive from @hollykorbey.bsky.social
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Is England on the right path for inclusion?

In both England and the US, SEND provision suffers from poor funding, a lack of trained professionals and system overwhelm. But their responses to these challenges have been very different, with the U...

www.tes.com

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Paul Kirschner @paulkirschner.bsky.social · Aug 31

I find it somewhere between unbelievable and disheartening that people without empirical research credentials propose a new, untested, unresearched theory of learning; a new cognitive philosophy (!!) of learning.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
predictablycorrect.substack.com/p/beyond-loa...

Beyond the theoretical and pedagogical constraints of cognitive load theory, and towards a new cognitive philosophy in education

Cognitive load theory (CLT), a construct of instructional psychologist John Sweller, has long been a mainstay of educational psychology and university educational technology courses, regionally and...

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Karen Vaites @karenvaites.bsky.social · Aug 27

I just spoke with Ivana Greco about the supply side part of this issue.

@hollykorbey.bsky.social and I discussed it on the Bell Ringer podcast.

I’m gonna spend this school year talking about this one on repeat.

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Holly Korbey @hollykorbey.bsky.social · Aug 22

I was honored to be on The Pulse to explain the science of learning and why understanding how we learn matters so much more to transforming education than AI and the internet. Get a primer on the research and why it matters in this episode 👇

The Pulse @thepulse.whyy.org · Aug 22

It's back-to-school time. Students, teachers, and parents are facing numerous challenges — from using AI in the classroom to reckoning with the long shadow of the pandemic.

On this episode, we explore how our rapidly changing world is transforming school.

🔗 bit.ly/4lLyHGH

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Holly Korbey @hollykorbey.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thanks--and hi!! 😘

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Holly Korbey @hollykorbey.bsky.social · Aug 19

@sbook.bsky.social Hi Susan, I'm a reporter working on a story about special education inclusion, I can tell you more, would you be interested in talking to me? You can reach me at [email protected]. Thanks!

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Holly Korbey @hollykorbey.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thank you! Will do!

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Holly Korbey @hollykorbey.bsky.social · Aug 19

Help a reporter: I'm looking for experts on special education inclusion, who should I be talking to? For a story.

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Dan Willingham @dtwuva.bsky.social · Aug 15

US ignores home-grown education ideas that are accelerating progress overseas. fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...

The U.S. ignores home-grown ed ideas that are accelerating progress overseas

One could argue that the University of Virginia cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham is one of the most influential Americans of the 21st century. Willingham has observed that we have learned more...

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · Aug 14

Education professors scored no better than physics or business faculty on basic learning science, raising serious questions about teacher preparation programmes.
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · Aug 12

"AI is not that novel. It is not that potentially revolutionary. It is in a long continuum of technologies that promise to transform education, starting with the TV, the typewriter, VCRs, tablets [and] Chromebooks."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

Opinion | A.I. Is Fueling a ‘Poverty of Imagination.’ Here’s How We Can Fix It.

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Holly Korbey @hollykorbey.bsky.social · Aug 11

Teachers, school leaders, students and parents have a lot of problems with the digital math practice platforms that have become ubiquitous in classrooms, even though research shows they "work." So what do we mean by "work"? In education, it's complicated. www.educationnext.org/practice-pro...

The Practice Problem

Research shows that students benefit from digital math practice platforms. So why don’t more students use them?

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Holly Korbey @hollykorbey.bsky.social · Aug 10

Not only is Annie a friend, she's a subscriber and huge supporter of The Bell Ringer!! :)

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Karen Vaites @karenvaites.bsky.social · Aug 9

In year after year of reform efforts, teachers had been told to “do explicit instruction,” with no roadmap on how to do it, or how to do it well.

@gtavernetti.bsky.social and @hollykorbey.bsky.social discuss.

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4 ways to do explicit instruction right

What does an explicit instruction lesson look like in real life?

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Holly Korbey @hollykorbey.bsky.social · Aug 10

so therefore we can never really nail down what it would take to help more kids. I fundamentally disagree with that. The science is complicated *and* there's some stuff we know. Would love for you to subscribe if you want to learn more, or want to pick out where I'm leaving out necessary nuance!

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Holly Korbey @hollykorbey.bsky.social · Aug 10

A lot of this circular arguing on social media, from my vantage point, looks like a way to weasel out of any accountability to children--the science is too complicated, you're calling it by the wrong thing, you're interviewing people I disagree with...

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Holly Korbey @hollykorbey.bsky.social · Aug 10

on things like the science of motivation, and how inquiry and DI overlap. My central argument, and I think it's a strong one, remains the same: there's research on how memory works, and how acquiring academic knowledge works, that many teachers don't know, and it would be good for them to know it.

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Holly Korbey @hollykorbey.bsky.social · Aug 10

People do have disagreements about the term SoL, I'm not sure it's great myself, but I have never maintained that this science boils down to two or three items. How can you know that about me? By reading my actual posts and stories, including stories on my Substack

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Holly Korbey @hollykorbey.bsky.social · Aug 10

You are basing your opinion of my work on stories you haven't read. You are welcome to critique whatever you want, but I can't respond in any meaningful way on what you think I might be saying behind the paywall.

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Holly Korbey @hollykorbey.bsky.social · Aug 10

Where are you finding in my work that I've said the science of learning is a unified field and acting like it's the only science available? Can you point to some stories so I can respond? Thank you!

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Holly Korbey @hollykorbey.bsky.social · Aug 10

And maybe most importantly, I didn't write this story that Nick had some problems with. Greg Toppo did. www.the74million.org/article/cogn...

‘Cognitive Science,’ All the Rage in British Schools, Fails to Register in U.S.

Educators blame this ‘reverse Beatles effect’ on America’s decentralized system and grad schools that are often hostile to research.

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Holly Korbey @hollykorbey.bsky.social · Aug 10

Here's my story for Hechinger all about number sense and how children get it, not exactly a cog sci favorite, where I visit a kinder classroom using wholly inquiry/flourishing methods to help kids learn early math: hechingerreport.org/the-building...

The building blocks of math students need to excel

A flexible understanding of how numbers work is as important to math as phonics is to reading

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Holly Korbey @hollykorbey.bsky.social · Aug 10

Here's my story from a rigorous study from a group of cog scientists who say it's not memorization/thinking strategies, or direct instruction/inquiry, it's both: it's the dosage that matters. hollykorbey.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

The end of the math wars?

Memorization or thinking strategies? It's both in the right dosage, argues a new paper

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