BATs is a pro-public education/social justice advocacy ACTIVIST group. Education justice IS social justice, IS racial justice. The three cannot be separated.
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When we introduced the marketplace into neurodevelopmental assessments, something fundamental shifted.
When there is a profit to be made from convincing people they might be autistic or have ADHD, then we are all at risk of overmedicalisation. It is in the interest of private providers to expand their audience.
Once the demand is there, the incentives are to carry out assessments as cheaply as possible. And that can mean poor quality assessments leading to life long diagnoses.
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Alert: Ed tech industry-supported whitewashing effort - shows desperation that they publicize supposed polls favoring limiting screen time over banning it.
Parents know that banning technology from classrooms is only setting kids up to be unprepared for the future. What they want are clear limits, explanations about how screens support learning, and to be part of the conversation before the policies get written. See what else parents have to say: NPUonAI.org
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Meg White: Spellings and Duncan Want to Revive Their Failed Programs dianeravitch.net/2026/10/21/… via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters
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Are schools meant to educate people—or produce workers for the market?
Lois Weiner links France’s test-score debate to privatization, school funding, and who gets to decide what education is for.
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Success Academy Sues NYSED For Inadvertently Exposing That They Have Been Gaming The US News & World Report Rankings For Years garyrubinstein.wordpress.com… via @garyrubinstein
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Research Contradicts “Science of Reading” Media Story Being Sold paulthomas701128.substack.co…
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"Teachers in #HISD, take note: a former Mike Miles employee from Colorado has a warning for you. Stay informed and prepared."
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The "Science of Reading" Ushers in NAEP Reading Decline: Time for a New Story radicalscholarship.com/2025/…
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Embarassing how NYSED continues to use, scale &/or unreliably score state standardized tests – undermining any possible use for diagnostic purposes. This has gone on for more 20 years. We must again wait for the NAEPs to get real numbers. chalkbeat.org/newyork/2026/0…
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Teachers are speaking out! Many educators are publicly stating that Houston ISD's appointed superintendent and the NES program are failing our students. This is a critical issue that affects our community's future. #HoustonISD #NES #EducationCrisis #SupportOurStudents
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MORE teacher caucus within UFT explains why they are calling for moratorium on AI use in @nycschools via @meijer_martina strikehot.morecaucusnyc.org/…
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The Numbers Don’t Add Up: Mathematical Proof that the Science of Reading State Laws are Not Based On Science open.substack.com/pub/teachi… #Reading
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There is no profit when you as a scholar share the evidence contradicting what is being sold in the education marketplace, media, and politics
There is profit as a scholar if you just echo the story being sold, even when the evidence isn't there
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If you were on the Visible Learning train (and some of us warned you), you better reconsider now that the plagiarism has also been made visible (the "evidence" and ideology were always wrong, BTW)
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What If The Youth Crisis of Mental Health and Attention Never Actually Happened?, by @CJFerguson1111 open.substack.com/pub/grimoi…
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If you have wondered why the "science of" reformers and marketers attack Freire ...
historyisaweapon.com/defcon2…
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“It makes me furious,” said Pace, a member of Schools Beyond Screens. “My daughter went to middle school and was sent home with a screen addiction in her backpack.” abcnews.com/Technology/wireS…