Weekly roundup of favorite posts

Here are some of our favorite posts from the past week (and a bit back)

Common Sense Media on cell phone use (hat tip, David Fortin)

Angie and Emily Hanford on Balanced Literacy

• Balanced Literacy: Hello, Walls!
• widely used reading curriculum is failing kids

Greg Ashman on the virtues of copying sentences

Greg Ashman and Jennifer Buckingham on Structured Word Inquiry:

• no evidence for phonics?
• SWI fails a key test
• the sophisticated world of SWI
• curiouser and curiouser
• the grass is not greener

Fordham Institute on

• access to gifted education
•  the history of desegregation
• America’s math woes

See Sth Say Sth on

• Palo Alto’s Achievement Gap
• What Does Stanford Have to Do With the Dismal PISA Results

Brightbeam on the secret shame of progressive cities

Barry Garelick on K-12 math education in the US and how it got that way

Very exciting !

I’m going to pour myself a glass of wine and watch.