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There is no 8th-grade reading "miracle" anywhere.

Bring back textbooks , write Sophie Winkleman and David James in The Spectator . In Britain, as in the U.S., schools have embraced online learning and "one-to-one" devices, they write. Students swipe and scroll between tabs, "some educational and some not," while the teacher tries to keep the class "on task." Textbooks "are slandered as boring compared with online resources, which offer video clips, audio, 3D modelling and other seductive 21st-century ‘essentials’," they writ

"I ain't saying you treated me unkind," sang Bob Dylan. "You just kinda wasted my precious time." From X: Figen posts a video of a teacher who brought a PlayStation to class to use Assassin's Creed to teach about the Industrial Revolution . This is a distraction and a waste of time, responds Tom Bennett. It gets students to expect bells and whistles. SoL in the Wild agrees it's "100% terrible." He blames constant messages to teachers to make lessons fun, fun, fun. Learning

“When tech enters education, learning goes down,” neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath told a U.S. Senate subcommittee. His testimony went viral . In The Digital Delusion , Horvath makes the case that declining test scores are linked to rising screen time. Classroom technology, such as a laptop or tablet for every student, is undermining learning, he argues. The anti-tech "message is resonating with some parents, educators, and lawmakers," writes Matt Barnum on Chalkbeat. As