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Holly Korbey
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Holly Korbey
@HKorbey
Education journalist, author of BUILDING BETTER CITIZENS.
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- New from me: Researchers are beginning to ask if a lack of childhood independence plays a role in the mental health crisis. "Today’s 18-year-olds are like 12-year-olds from a decade ago. They have very little tolerance for conflict and discomfort."
- We found out there would be no in-person school 24 hours ago, and now every single family I know is rushing to make social "learning pods" with a few other families to share duties and so their kids won't have to learn alone. Curious to see where this leads. Humans are amazing.
- Wish we could get people as upset about 75% of kids not reading at grade level as we can seem to do about masks.
- Deleted a tweet because I realized it was worded poorly. Again: my high schooler got up and went to a completely normal school day today. No mask. Regular sports schedule. This is because the school leadership has decided exactly what success looks like, and worked relentlessly
- Replying to @HKorbeyPlease read this story! Childhood independence plays a role in positive mental health. One expert said: “When we are controlling a young adult’s experiences...we’re actually curbing people’s opportunities to have the full range of human experience.”
- Replying to @HKorbeyParents know it's a problem, says @FreeRangeKids, but they are having a hard time taking action to actually give kids more independence. "Everybody gets it. But they wouldn’t let their own kids do it," she said.
- Replying to @HKorbeyPsychologists are beginning to use a kind of "independence therapy" to help kids with anxiety, like @DrCamiloOrtiz. “This is not a traditional anxiety treatment,” he said. “My approach is something like: So you’re afraid of the dark? Go to the deli and buy me some salami.”
- "A soon-to-be published, groundbreaking study from neuroscientists at Columbia University’s Teachers College has come down decisively on the matter: for “deeper reading” there is a clear advantage to reading a text on paper, rather than on a screen."
- I have raised three boys, youngest is now 13, and my spicy Friday take is that k-8 schools are better, and they benefit middle schoolers the most.
GIF - I think the most important work I did this year is reporting on how we are not paying nearly enough attention to the cognitive benefits of music education. A growing body of evidence points to how much and in what ways music enhances learning, esp reading:
- I hope someone is doing a study on the differences in how boys and girls are doing with virtual schooling. My totally unscientific, anecdotal stories are telling me boys are faring much worse. Anybody else?
- At his new school, a private one with no state testing, my 7th grader read 6 books in English class this year, and is currently writing a 5-pg paper on the history of jazz—a real paper, w/an outline, notecards, and multiple rounds of revision. Last year.. chronicle.com/article/is-thi…
- One big reason IB or AP math students do better than your average HS math student might simply be access to a well-structured curriculum.PROOF POINTS: Many high school math teachers cobble together their own instructional materials from the internet and elsewhere, a survey finds hechingerreport.org/proof-points-m…
