Educational Links 1/4/19

Core set of autism traits shows up in diverse cultures

https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/core-set-autism-traits-shows-diverse-cultures/?fbclid=IwAR3HfSm1hGNkg8dJD3x7BA2oS29J2lkAoCvyZVCfc_8wbHjPkaadN97DyTQ

Why Millions Of Kids Can't Read, And What Better Teaching Can Do About It

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/02/677722959/why-millions-of-kids-cant-read-and-what-better-teaching-can-do-about-it?fbclid=IwAR3VjsEf3lf_3Zm2feESDL1wozzhYWhCVXAy7N2bjt91slDpg0_wF_xPhuk

Teachers Go Public With Their Resignation Letters

https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/teacherbeat/2017/04/why_do_teachers_quit_their_res.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB&fbclid=IwAR3idqIpEseftDD6uD1PspIuprAGyOyD_WCG-824OZGWotnby76gWGSg5rA

School Retention Linked to Violent Crimes in Adulthood in New Study

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2019/01/retention_increases_likelihood.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB&fbclid=IwAR3CVjwIpYZdNClK_HmhBzzlSwSr7B8d2n1MTa0M1USX2EJh6egSfULneYk

A COLLECTION OF THE BEST EDUCATION PREDICTIONS FOR 2019

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2019/01/03/a-collection-of-the-best-education-predictions-for-2019/?fbclid=IwAR1MrgyBdS8AirOvFiunrQcaG0uu1Ni1krKFbiKkNw-579w8_AzvPDy20J8

Thousands of Copyrighted Works Will Now Be Freely Available to Teachersliteracy, literacy, autism

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teaching_now/2019/01/public_domain_day.html?fbclid=IwAR1iikevtYTq4YNB0ju-vuTOkwlfPw0r-IEQtBwG1QdkfcA9vTJau4CWTRU

Why Millions Of Kids Can't Read, And What Better Teaching Can Do About It

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/02/677722959/why-millions-of-kids-cant-read-and-what-better-teaching-can-do-about-it?fbclid=IwAR08hjHbK6T-6r1K3Fd7csEcxbg9zwntlPxrtdEgNu1fiFdd09HglIJdbCM

One big takeaway from all that research is that reading is not natural; we are not wired to read from birth. People become skilled readers by learning that written text is a code for speech sounds. The primary task for a beginning reader is to crack the code. Even skilled readers rely on decoding.