Patrick Proctor
@cpatrickproctor.bsky.social
Professor at Boston College. I study bilingualism and literacy from developmental and critical perspectives
As of November, 2024, 40 states have adopted “science of reading” legislation designed to raise student reading performance. However, 2024 4th grade NAEP reading scores went down compared to previous years. Maybe it’s time to rethink the wisdom of mandating SoR curricula as “transformative”
January 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
As of November, 2024, 40 states have adopted “science of reading” legislation designed to raise student reading performance. However, 2024 4th grade NAEP reading scores went down compared to previous years. Maybe it’s time to rethink the wisdom of mandating SoR curricula as “transformative”
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Honestly, I feel like the best thing to do right now is to remind yourself that you're not alone and be amongst people who have actual moral integrity.
January 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Honestly, I feel like the best thing to do right now is to remind yourself that you're not alone and be amongst people who have actual moral integrity.
This is what happens when stories get sold too hard, if you catch my drift.
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/04/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/04/m...
Two Mass. families sue famed literacy specialists, claiming reading curriculums were intentionally flawed - The Boston Globe
The complaint, which is seeking class action status, could spur others like it nationwide.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 4, 2024 at 5:42 PM
This is what happens when stories get sold too hard, if you catch my drift.
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/04/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/04/m...
Proud to publish this piece with Chris Leider (@cmleider.bsky.social). We ask educational psychologists to consider students’ “dynamic idiolects” to better understand reading development and achievement. First 50 downloads are free!
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EAP95...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EAP95...
Toward a dynamic idiolect: Multilingual perspectives on the “science of reading”
In this essay, we address the multilingual challenge that is faced by both the “science of reading” and the field of educational psychology. We describe some significant contributions made by educa...
www.tandfonline.com
December 2, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Proud to publish this piece with Chris Leider (@cmleider.bsky.social). We ask educational psychologists to consider students’ “dynamic idiolects” to better understand reading development and achievement. First 50 downloads are free!
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EAP95...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EAP95...
Reposted by Patrick Proctor
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Resist analyzing this as an actual policy position.
Trump HHS nominee RFK Jr.:
If you give Black children “resilience” then “the inevitable racism” will “bounce off” them like they are “the Avengers” because “they will be immune to it” and “then we don’t have to stop racism altogether, because we’re never going to be able to do that.”
If you give Black children “resilience” then “the inevitable racism” will “bounce off” them like they are “the Avengers” because “they will be immune to it” and “then we don’t have to stop racism altogether, because we’re never going to be able to do that.”
November 24, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Resist analyzing this as an actual policy position.
Any upper elementary teachers out there who want a free and effective language-based reading curriculum are welcome to check out CLAVES (www.clavescurriculum.net).
CLAVES can be used on its own or as a curricular supplement. It was designed with and for multilingual students and their teachers.
CLAVES can be used on its own or as a curricular supplement. It was designed with and for multilingual students and their teachers.
November 22, 2024 at 11:22 PM
Any upper elementary teachers out there who want a free and effective language-based reading curriculum are welcome to check out CLAVES (www.clavescurriculum.net).
CLAVES can be used on its own or as a curricular supplement. It was designed with and for multilingual students and their teachers.
CLAVES can be used on its own or as a curricular supplement. It was designed with and for multilingual students and their teachers.
Core Knowledge Language Arts is a “science of reading” curriculum whose lead editor is E.D. Hirsch. If your district adopts this curriculum while simultaneously talking about “culturally sustaining pedagogy”, please ask whose culture is being sustained in the name of the “science of reading”.
November 21, 2024 at 4:20 AM
Core Knowledge Language Arts is a “science of reading” curriculum whose lead editor is E.D. Hirsch. If your district adopts this curriculum while simultaneously talking about “culturally sustaining pedagogy”, please ask whose culture is being sustained in the name of the “science of reading”.
The office door of my 2016 research team. There will be new bans. It will be the same resistance.
November 20, 2024 at 3:55 AM
The office door of my 2016 research team. There will be new bans. It will be the same resistance.