Bluegrass Learning @bgrasslearning

Experienced and certified teachers providing parent engagement resources for schools, ACT test prep classes and private tutoring for students. bluegrasslearning.com Bowling Green, KY Joined August 2014

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Tina Sindwani @eduwithtina

a week ago

There aren't any passages on the SAT anymore. The "passages" are one paragraph blurbs, linked to exactly one question. Most of them are not excepts from literature, but text made up by the College Board. At this time, the only information the SAT Reading/Writing score provides is whether the student can read.

Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41

a week ago

It’s amazing to me how little even people in education know about the new SAT. It’s online and adaptive, meaning students literally get different tests. The longest reading passages are just 120 words. Analogies, once a crucial way to test a student’s ability to think

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Paul Graham @paulg

2 weeks ago

A Brown professor gave his students a take-home midterm exam. After suspecting many cheated using AI, he made the final in-person. The orange dots are the midterm scores and the gray dots are the final scores. Looks like all but 3 cheated on the midterm.

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U.S. Department of Education @usedgov

2 weeks ago

Literacy starts at home. @SLOTUS’ Summer Reading Challenge encourages children grades K-8 to read and track twelve books of their choice before Sept. 4 as we continue to celebrate America’s 250th. Find out more and how to get involved at WH.gov/Read!

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Bluegrass Learning @bgrasslearning

2 weeks ago

Hate to be the one to rat them out, but pretty sure that’s Bo and Luke. Can’t remember their last names but they’re good ol’ boys… never meaning no harm. You know this beats all I ever saw: been in trouble with the law since the day they were born🤷‍♂️

Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol

2 weeks ago

🚨#BREAKING: Police in New Bern NC are asking the public's help to identify the two men who cut down a brand-new Flock camera that was just installed. The public allegedly has submitted hundreds of tips by sending in names like "Batman and Robin" and "Lone Ranger and Tonto."

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Bluegrass Learning @bgrasslearning

3 weeks ago

A few hundred years head start and not even in the race anymore🤣🇺🇸

R⎊M @LDNRom

3 weeks ago

So America turns 250. That's cute. My local pub is 364 years old.

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Bluegrass Learning @bgrasslearning

a month ago

It’s situational. There are some great kids thriving in a homeschool setting, and some who aren’t learning much… it is the same in our schools. The one big disagreement I have with your comment: the “median” kid in our public schools is not doing well. The national data tell us he not reading or doing math at grade level. Would that one child do better in a homeschool setting? It depends. Success of homeschool is highly dependent on the parent doing a good job managing it. If they do, he would be better off at home. If not, he can stay in the public school but know he’s likely to continue as the “median” kid, below where he should be.

Patrick Heizer @PatrickHeizer

a month ago

There is a reason that literally every single developed nation has state-funded compulsory education: Because it's better for the median student than homeschooling.

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Bluegrass Learning @bgrasslearning

a month ago

Ok. We’ll start calling ours “sparkling curds.”

Yael Moussaieff @Yisraphat

a month ago

@AmarisDidNoBad Cheddar is a place in England. No American cheese is actually cheddar.

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James A. Furey @JamesAFurey

a month ago

We need to stop lying to students and their parents.

Pamela Hobart @gtmom

a month ago

Here we go again... what would you tell this mom who's concerned about a large discrepancy between her child's classroom grades and standardized test scores?

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Fazir Ali @KingFazir

a month ago

Watching fans from all over the world experience America has been one of the coolest parts of this World Cup. People are losing their minds over things most of us don’t even think about anymore: - Free chips and salsa. - Buc-ee’s. - Massive grocery stores. - Six-lane highways. - Air conditioning everywhere. - Endless refills. Meanwhile, the tournament is being played in world-class stadiums that were already built. No rushed construction. No billion-dollar vanity projects. It’s hard to ignore what visitors keep saying: the infrastructure is incredible, the people are welcoming, and the scale of everything is unlike anything they’ve seen before. Sometimes it takes seeing your country through someone else’s eyes to appreciate what we have. We take a lot of it for granted.

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Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79

a month ago

Berkeley Professor Mina Aganagic: “‘I realized that for students to follow me…I had to start reviewing basic algebra stuff, like fractions.’ The lack of mathematical fluency, Aganagic said, extended even to ‘the meaning of equals in an equation.’”

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Bluegrass Learning @bgrasslearning

2 months ago

Parents: PLEASE start asking hard questions about those “good grades” your child is bringing home. Are they actually learning? I assure you, in many classes, the A your child receives IS NOT the same as the A you earned when you were in school.

Dale Chu @Dale_Chu

2 months ago

The honesty gap has become a multi-layered barrier between parents and reality: • Runaway grade inflation • States quietly lowering cut scores • Record high grad rates It creates a false sense of security today, but leaves parents blindsided after it’s too late to intervene.

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Bluegrass Learning @bgrasslearning

2 months ago

30 minutes after this parade yesterday, and days after finals, the plebes (freshman) were in fatigues loading 80-100lb packs and leaving for 3 weeks of field exercises. When the standards are high, kids will meet them.

Bluegrass Learning @bgrasslearning

2 months ago

I’ve been guilty of participating in the “kids are doomed” rhetoric that’s ever present. Go to a service academy graduation and talk to a few 18-22yo’s. After visiting a place with high standards, where kids are still asked to do difficult things, the future doesn’t seem so bleak

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Bluegrass Learning @bgrasslearning

2 months ago

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Bluegrass Learning @bgrasslearning

3 months ago

Absolutely true.

James A. Furey @JamesAFurey

3 months ago

Parents: I promise you that if your students are getting straight As in class but scores in the teens on the ACT or reading at a Basic or Below Basic level on STAR or otherwise scoring low on standardized tests, it is not because they are thriving at school with all the extra

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Bluegrass Learning @bgrasslearning

3 months ago

Always happy to hear of our students who go from 25 to 30+ on the ACT and get extra scholarship money. Just as satisfying to hear one went from 17 to 21, hit benchmark on all sections, and can now take dual credit classes she wanted. Also new majors available with a 25 sci!

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Bluegrass Learning @bgrasslearning

3 months ago

The law allows PUBLIC school children to receive scholarships for special education services and tutoring outside their school system, while staying in their PUBLIC school, if they so choose. And it’s fully funded by PRIVATE donations, not “public” money: bluegrasslearning.com/blog/school-ch…

Governor Andy Beshear @GovAndyBeshear

3 months ago

Kentucky's constitution says no public dollars to nonpublic schools unless there's a vote from the people. I put my hand on the Bible when I swore to uphold our constitution and listen to our people – and that's an oath I've kept.

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Bluegrass Learning @bgrasslearning

5 months ago

But fewer than 608,000 Bristol Motor Speedway‘s. No wonder they don’t have any SEC championships.

Cthulhu ( ;,;) @Cthulhu_Answers

5 months ago

For MAGA audience: Iran is larger than 308 million football fields, or 22 million Walmart parking lots.

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Richard Innes @Innes434

5 months ago

1/ This thread starts with a disappointing set of data from Kentucky’s testing of all public school 11th graders with the ACT college entrance test. As you can see, following years of improvement, the state’s ACT Composite Score has generally decayed since 2016-17. In fact, as of the 2024-25 school year, the Composite is even lower than when this program began back in the 2007-08 year.

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Richard Innes @Innes434

5 months ago

It becomes more and more disappointing to see some members of the education community continue to deny this.

Freedom in Education @Freedom_in_Ed

5 months ago

📚 America’s K-12 reading scores are dropping — NAEP shows more students at “Below Basic” levels. With 54% of adults reading at a 6th-grade level, the literacy crisis is real. See what research says about what works👇 freedomined.org/news-room/free…

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Bluegrass Learning @bgrasslearning

5 months ago

As a submarine veteran, way too much wrong information and downright bad analysis all over X since yesterday’s sinking of Iranian warship. The boat did what it’s built to do and the crew did what they’re trained to do. End of story.