HeyJaredLearning to Read, Reading to Learn
This journal aims to comment on claims, questions, and concerns about public schools as sites for reading and writing pedagogy. As a teacher and professor, I draw on my background and experience and offer food for thought. My hope is to help schools.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 13
- Latest publication
- Oct 1, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Aug 2, 2026
Latest issues
Sashweights and Birdshot: On Equalizing Inequity (opens the original)
Read excerpt
The Science of Reading Act and Kurt VonnegutIn 1961, Kurt Vonnegut published a short story called “Harrison Bergeron.” The narrative is set in 2081 when Americans have finally become equal in every way. The government’s Handicapper General enforces that equality. People of above-average intelligence wear radios in their ears that blast noise every few seconds to break up their thoughts. Beautiful people wear masks. The ballerinas who dance on television are weighed down with sashweights and bags
What the Ear Knows: What An Equalizer Can Teach Us About Reading and Writing (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Anyone who has recorded a fine acoustic guitar knows the problem. The instrument sounds beautiful in the room: a Martin HD-28 with a spruce top, say, with its deep, subtle sustain (C.F. Martin & Co.). You listen to the recording with your fingers crossed, and you are disappointed. The sound is thick and woolly, boxy as engineers say, as if you were hearing it through a pillow.The shimmer that made the guitar ethereal is still there. You just can’t hear it. What happened? Somewhere in the lower m
The Simple View of Schooling Redux (opens the original)
Read excerpt
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (2002) was left behind in American history, a massive jolt of phonics and political adrenalin that redirected early grade reading teachers to attend to sounds without regard for sense making. A draconian piece of legislation characterized by one of my colleagues at the time as “tough love,” in my view, it did lasting damage to literacy instruction. Unfortunately, its fatal flaw was reauthorized in 2015, if more gently, by a democratic President and a bipartisan C
Banning AI in Schools While Embracing AI in Assessment for Accountability: A Bad Deal for Kids (opens the original)
Read excerpt
I’m not alone in sensing a repeat of the 2023-2024 school year in 2026-27. The year 2023 was the first full year with AI. Schools have had three years to figure out how classrooms might develop real knowledge about this new and inescapable technology. They have very little systematic knowledge or expertise to show for this lengthy period of potential experimentation except for polarization and increasing fear and trembling coupled with an urgent circling-of-the wagons.A review of the headlines i
A Two-Tier Synthetic Reading Task: Materials for Use in a High School or Undergraduate Writing Course (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Background to the TaskThe following essay was generated by Claude Sonnet in response to a request to generate an essay that provides examples of false sourcing, diabolical deceptions, micro fabrications, simple hallucinations, complex hallucinations, and a holistic mirage. It can be used in a classroom task asking students to do a two-tier audit of the integrity and accuracy of the essay.The first tier involves reading the essay and identifying each proposition. For this purpose, a proposition i
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.