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Teacher unions and reading reform (opens the original)
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The title of a recent Wall Street Journal (WSJ) op-ed by Rachel Canter of the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) announced that the piece was about Mississippi. But the subtitle underneath revealed it was actually about something else: “Powerful teachers’ unions are an obstacle to reform.”<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_
A Sharon Vaughn and Jim Cummins webinar (opens the original)
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Teaching in Context 10 Years Later: What It Means for Literacy Reform--A Focus on Time (opens the original)
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My colleagues at The Al Shanker Institute in DC, Susan Neuman and Esther Quintero, will be joined by Matthew Kraft and Jack Schneider in what promises to be an informative and important discussion on Thursday | Sept. 17, 2026 @ 4:00 PM EST.Most of us worry a lot about the quality of instruction students receive. But we often have insufficient appreciation for how the context in which that instruction happens—or is supposed to happen or doesn’t happen—matters. Because if we also worry about imple
The Road to Reading for English Learners (opens the original)
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The second item from the summer is “The Road to Reading for English Learners,” which I wrote with Linda Cavazos. It also came out in July and fits perfectly with the AFT resolution. In fact, it’s an extension of it. You can get the article here. (No paywall, one of American Educator’s many virtues.)<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IBJV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-me
An Early Reading Resolution (opens the original)
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As we come out of the Labor Day weekend, and the country goes back to school, two reading items to note from the summer that’s just ended.The first, and far more potentially consequential, is a resolution the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) adopted on July 19, Recommitting to Early Reading Instruction and Support.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!M2CW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-m
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