Favorites March 6th 2023
NYC middle school teacher Shira Engel had disengaged students acting out when asked to read aloud.
Then…
“When those sixth grade students finally sat down for a reading assessment, their ability to decode print text was at a first or 2nd grade level.”
When there's discussion of how some kids are failing to learn to read in elementary school because of ineffective 'whole word' lessons, those kids still go on to middle school.
My favourite study of "how often does a family with small children get a respiratory infection?" is this one, from the USA:
doi.org/10.1093/cid/ci…
Children <5y have one of 16 common respiratory viruses detected in a nasal swab 50% of the year!
I could really go for the invention and availability of a bunch more vaccines, that would be great.
it just seems insulting that my mental state could be affected by whether i have exercised or not. literally the most important thing in my stupid little life and running real fast in a hamster wheel is enough to change it for the better.
carefully balancing the weight of an entire human soul and its contents -- trillions of independent variables -- against two three-hundred-pound weights labeled "have i satisfied my zoomies" and "is my tum-tum full"
Find reasons to go places by bike! It's great!
Threads
• Long thread about how Walgreens has decided to stop stocking abortion pills in states where abortion is legal.
• Thread about plans for New York to finally do something about the scaffolding all over their city. Here's another thread discussing the merits of this new plan and how bad the problem is.