u/Beautiful_Primary353

Hello all. I'm a HS teacher and I've been told that most of my students were taught reading using the whole-language/balanced literacy approach. It would certainly explain some of the things I've seen. Does anyone know if there have been any longitudinal studies on the impact of this approach (vs phonics, etc) on high school and college success, reading success, etc? I would welcome links to scholarship on the topic.

I’m teaching 11th grade Bio, and have taught community college students in the past. One thing I often find myself wishing for is a journal or list or searchable site that has curated annotated bibliography of primary literature.

More specifically, my wishlist is for research articles, meta-analyses, and review articles that are/have

• “legit” (in peer-reviewed journals)
• written clearly and well (please tell me passive voice is becoming passe), with reasoning easy to follow
• elegant/straightforward experimental methodology (bonus points for diagrams of reasoning or set-up)
• open access (no paywalls)
• can be used to teach students the conventions of scientific writing (structure and order, citations)
• science concepts that are understandable. Cognitively accessible for motivated older high school students and college students. (The science can’t be so technical, so esoteric, that it’s impossible to decipher without asking AI to translate.)

Has anyone built or found a collection like this? I have a few articles I’ve collected over time but gosh this seems like something that could be effectively crowd-sourced and organized.

I’m working on an old Stickley library desk — just got the first full sanding done.

Question: There are some chalk numbers on the underside of the desk. Should I not sand those, and preserve them as artifacts? Or are they immaterial? (I know enough not to sand out the Stickley stamp in the drawer.)