Greg McVerry
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@JennBinis But that was speculation whereas the failure of the DoED is well established in their own programmatic reviews
Greg McVerry
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@JennBinis I debated putting in rising NAEP scores in younger grades and stagnant in older positing it was due to content knowledge.
Greg McVerry
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@JennBinis i did use creative license with RtI "makes you dumber" but it is such a stupid program that we all latched on to.
Greg McVerry
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@JennBinis I did say "not statistically significant" when referring to results. That is the benchmark of success in quant research
Greg McVerry
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@JennBinis In terms of leveling texts and lexile levels it is mostly universally panned by literacy researchers.
Greg McVerry
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@JennBinis I linked to all the studies from IES that evaluated the programs. Not one was a success
Greg McVerry
Notes February 7, 2017
Those times when I agree with @smarick and others “Repubs want to Blow Up Dept of Ed: Maybe We sShould Let Them” https://medium.com/@jgmac1106/republicans-want-to-blow-up-dept-of-ed-151c7f23cb3#.k6xvnrypu
Greg McVerry
Notes February 7, 2017
Published “Republicans want to Blow Up Dept of Ed: Maybe we Should Let Them” https://medium.com/@jgmac1106/republicans-want-to-blow-up-dept-of-ed-151c7f23cb3#.on9ejhmjb #edreform #literacies
Greg McVerry
Notes February 7, 2017
I just published “Republicans want to Blow Up Dept of Ed” https://medium.com/p/republicans-want-to-blow-up-dept-of-ed-151c7f23cb3
Greg McVerry
Notes February 7, 2017
This is a tax hike: http://bit.ly/2khlqYA raising Skyrocketing local taxes instead of state taxes are still taxes. #ctedu #connecticut
Greg McVerry
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@geroter @firefox never assume. Besides our conversation makes transparent what to do for others lurking on our feeds.
Greg McVerry
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@geroter I checked on bugzilla. The issue is known and being worked on last few years. Few probably have as many columns as me @firefox
Greg McVerry
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@TechedUpTeacher Just did, basically trying to simulate small group or 1:1 reading lessons with teachers and students
Greg McVerry
Notes February 7, 2017
I try really hard to just use @firefox but Tweetdeck is one of things that will constantly become unresponsive but works in Chrome
Greg McVerry
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@TechedUpTeacher @SchleiderJustin OMG this is just what I wanted. I have students "teach" reading using text to video tools. This is PERFECT
Greg McVerry
Notes February 7, 2017
Nevada's Voucher Fail http://ift.tt/2lbPp4M
Greg McVerry
Notes February 7, 2017
Turnarounds rarely work. Close dysfunctional schools instead. http://ift.tt/2jUqA0u
Greg McVerry
Notes February 7, 2017
One thing I miss about using Google Apps as my LMS is knowing everyone had the same video and chat platform
Greg McVerry
Notes February 7, 2017
Its not so much screentime but owning your notification shade. #edtechchat
Greg McVerry
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@SeymourEducate Yes. You must have a pedagogical goal to enhance, otherwise it isn't enhancing anything #edtechchat
Greg McVerry