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Averill Earls
@aearls.bsky.social
Historian of sexuality and Ireland at St Olaf College. Executive Producer digpodcast.org. Layout Editor nursingclio.org. (3rd place) Winner of the 2024 MN State Fair Gingersnap competition.

SPIRITUALISM'S PLACE out now. LOVE IN THE LAV coming soon
Reposted by Averill Earls
If you want to learn more, here’s a whole podcast about our current literacy crisis.

features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/
Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on...
features.apmreports.org
October 18, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Thanks for sharing, John!
October 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Interesting… that would be potentially more informative than stunted growth, which seems a repetition of “underdeveloped”. But possibly they also just did not know quite what to make of the individual!
October 12, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Yes, Amazon is convenient. But in this racist capitalist dystopia, $$ talks. So maybe stop giving billionaires your bucks until he pays all his workers living wages and changes his exploitative monopolistic business model. That’s my 2 cents.
October 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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October 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Thank you all! I think that's exactly it!
October 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
It's from a mental hospital intake form!
October 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM