Monique @GovTutor

This is spectacularly silly. Disadvantaged students do not need untested AI tutors. They need excellent behaviour, high expectations, explicit instruction, and systematic retrieval. Not this.

Ridge & Frost @RidgeandFrost

3 days ago

Sir Keir Starmer has announced that AI tutors will be rolled out to 450,000 children on free school meals to close the attainment gap. Speaking at London Tech Week, the PM also announced the government's new AI jobseeking tool.

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Very pleased to get a very positive review of my new book against assisted death in the Telegraph today. Do Not Go Gentle by Kathleen Stock: 4-star review telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fict…

I'm a cardiologist. A 42-year-old mother of two came to my office complaining of jaw pain and crushing fatigue. She ran half-marathons. Her EKG was normal. Another doctor had sent her home with anxiety medication. When I got her into the cath lab, I found severe microvascular disease — plaque choking the tiniest vessels of her heart, the ones standard angiograms routinely miss. Her heart had been starving in silence while everyone told her she was stressed. She is alive today. Too many women like her are not. Heart disease kills more women than every cancer combined. And medicine is still diagnosing it through a male lens. 84% of cardiologists report having patients in the past year whose heart disease was misdiagnosed by another physician. Women with a STEMI heart attack have a 59% greater chance of being misdiagnosed compared to men. Women with an NSTEMI — 41% greater chance. The reason is structural. For decades, we screened, tested, and treated women using a template built for men. Men's heart attacks announce themselves — the crushing chest pain, the clutched fist, the Hollywood collapse. Women's hearts whisper. Crushing fatigue that feels like wearing a lead vest. Jaw pain written off as TMJ. Nausea blamed on a stomach bug. An ache between the shoulder blades blamed on a long week. Shortness of breath blamed on being out of shape. For years, medicine called these "atypical" symptoms. They are not atypical. They are female-typical. Half of humanity is not a variant. And the biology runs deeper than symptoms. Women have smaller hearts and narrower coronary arteries. Plaque doesn't only clog the big highway vessels — it hides in the microvasculature, the tiny branches feeding the heart muscle itself. A woman can have a heart attack with a completely "clean" standard angiogram. SCAD — spontaneous coronary artery dissection — occurs 90% of the time in women. Often young, fit women with zero traditional risk factors. It's the leading cause of heart attack in women under 50, accounting for roughly one quarter of all cases in that age group. Most doctors have never diagnosed one. And some of the most dangerous cardiac risk factors are hidden in women's medical histories where no one thinks to look: Preeclampsia or gestational hypertension doubles to quadruples lifetime heart disease and stroke risk. Pregnancy is the body's first cardiac stress test — and these complications are early warning sirens, not closed chapters. Autoimmune disease — lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis — far more common in women, turbocharges inflammation and plaque formation at any age. Cardiovascular disease in women aged 20-44 is projected to surge nearly 50% by 2050. The youngest patients in my practice keep getting younger. What every woman should ask her doctor — and what every doctor should be asking: "Given my pregnancy history, autoimmune status, and family history — what is my full cardiovascular risk?" If they don't ask about preeclampsia or gestational diabetes, volunteer it. "Should I have an Lp(a) test and a coronary calcium score?" Standard cholesterol panels miss too much. Lp(a) is genetic, one-time, and most women have never been tested. "My tests came back normal but my symptoms haven't stopped — what's next?" Normal stress tests and angiograms can miss microvascular disease, spasm, and SCAD. Persistent symptoms warrant coronary CT angiography or cardiac MRI. And if something feels wrong — say these exact words to your doctor: "I am concerned this could be my heart." That single sentence changes the workup. Do not soften it. Do not apologize for it. 80% of heart disease is preventable. But the playbook has to be built for female biology. Two decades ago, I wrote one of the first books warning that heart disease was the number one killer of women and that medicine was diagnosing it through a male lens. It was recognized by First Lady Laura Bush at the White House during the early years of the national conversation about women's heart health. I'm haunted by how much of that book I could republish today unchanged. The science has advanced. The awareness has grown. But the gap between what we know and what happens in the exam room is still costing women their lives. Share this with every woman you love — and every doctor who treats them. READ MORE: open.substack.com/pub/afshine/p/…

One of the most important books in education history may also be one of the most overlooked. Stanislas Dehaene's 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘞𝘦 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 shifts the focus from how educators can promote learning to something far more fundamental: the biological requirements for learning itself. Dehaene would know. He's the most cited neuroscientist of learning in the world, the first-ever lifetime professor of Experimental Cognitive Psychology at France's most prestigious research institution, and the Director of NeuroSpin, France's advanced brain-imaging research centre. (He's also the President of the Scientific Council of the French Ministry of Education.) So how could a major work by such a major figure be overlooked? Well, it 𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘯'𝘵 been overlooked outside of education. Last year Dehaene won the Lewis Thomas Prize for scientific writing with 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘞𝘦 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 featured prominently in the citation. And 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘞𝘦 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 is currently available in 31 editions and translations worldwide. So why aren't more people talking about it inside the evidence-based education community? I don't know. But I'm going to be shouting about it from the rooftops.

Very sad news about @ged10 A very great loss indeed.

Reading Reform Foundation @RRForg

a week ago

Geraldine Carter died on 17 May, aged 87. Many will remember her as kind, generous, wise, funny, and always ready with insight, encouragement or challenge. (1/5)

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Show me the "avid readers" among 5th graders who are still struggling to get words off the page. By 5th grade, avoidance and embarrassment are the order of the day for these students.

Dylan Wiliam @dylanwiliam

2 weeks ago

@tomloveless99 @DTWillingham And here's a slide I made about a decade ago:

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@AnnieBishop123 @MathsladyScott I did ask if any of the junior males had been asked, and none had. It was definitely a 'girl's job' thing. The fact that my direct boss was expected to do it was the real kicker. She thanked me later for pointing out how ridiculous it was & did hire the wait staff as I suggested

@AnnieBishop123 @MathsladyScott I told her she should refuse too and hire wait staff from a local pub instead.

@AnnieBishop123 @MathsladyScott Was a marketing/research assistant in 80s for big textile firm. Was expected (because female) to serve drinks at a big board meeting, I refused (didn't want to be presented to them in that capacity + I am v clumsy!) & discovered my female PHD boss was also expected to serve!

81-year-old widow, who is undergoing cancer treatment, has been convicted after forgetting to insure her late husband's car bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Today I met one of Australia's most famous residents - John Sweller, the father of cognitive load theory. He's been studying cognitive load theory for 50 years and it's only become well-known in the last five years. It was great to meet him in person! (I personally do not think this is parka weather at all, but he wasn't the only one wearing a parka in Sydney.)

People get confused when they observe little itty bitty things being taught incrementally so kids get them 80–100% correct the first time. Maybe we've been conditioned to think something is “off” when all kids are successful. Maybe it's impatience to get to the “big stuff."

This is a must-read piece by @greg_ashman on "conceptual understanding"—the goal everyone claims but can't really define or measure. My definition: it's the thing students supposedly gain when taught using certain methods (e.g., inquiry, multiple strategies, productive struggle) that are otherwise ineffective. That's why arguments about it go nowhere. The term is defined to be the outcome of a preferred teaching method so you're not debating evidence, you're debating something that's essentially defined to be the thing that everyone should want.

Last week I spent an inspiring few days in Belfast listening to some incredible school leaders, local teachers, world leading experts and working with @Education_NI to support the excellent work that @paulgivan and his team are doing on curriculum reform and then I come back to London and see this disaster. The contrast could not be more stark.

Department for Education @educationgovuk

3 weeks ago

Gemma Collins is in the building and she's got questions. Coming soon📷 @bphillipsonMP

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After 18 months of “standing up to Putin” the Labour govt quietly issued a licence allowing imports of Russian oil refined in third countries. Yesterday Labour MPs voted AGAINST UK oil and gas licences. We are now importing from Russia instead of drilling in the North Sea. Insane.

Javier Blas @JavierBlas

3 weeks ago

BREAKING: UK waives some Russian oil sanctions, allowing imports of diesel and jet fuel processed in third countries from Russian crude (most likely supply chain: imports of Indian refined products produced by processing Russian crude). gov.uk/government/pub…

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I highly recommend you read everything @jon_hutchinson_ has to say on this subject (and every other subject, frankly).

Jon Hutchinson @jon_hutchinson_

3 weeks ago

NEW POST it would be lovely to think that belonging is a fixed state, something that you can fix and it’s done. The reality is that it’s much more dynamic process. Belonging may be a noun, but to belong is a verb.

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Our panel session this morning on the Science of Learning, at @TheEWF, with Peter Schneider (@AmiraLearning); me; @NunoCrato (former Portuguese Ed Minister); Dan Willingham (author ‘Why Don’t Students Like School’); @amanda_spielman (former Ofsted Chief Inspector). @DTWillingham

Seriously? Eurovision has clamped down on lyrics deemed too political but "Choke Me" is okay??? People have family parties to watch this! How can Eurovision be complicit in normalising sexual violence?

VOTE! 🗳️ @eurovisionpollz

a month ago

EUROVISION 2026 SEMI FINAL 2 EUROFANS TOP YOUR RESULTS 🥇 ROMANIA 🇷🇴 Alexandra Căpitănescu - "Choke Me" 9.53 points average

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"In short, critical thinking is only possible when we have a knowledge base to draw upon – and one within a specific field". Hear, hear @jdtdobson 🙌

EducationHQ AU @EducationHQ_AU

a month ago

Australian teachers have been led astray by a prominent general capability in the national curriculum, which is based on the misguided premise that critical thinking can be taught as an abstract skill, an instructional coach says. educationhq.com/news/australia…

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