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Carl Hendrick

@carlhendrick.substack.com

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Dad | Professor of applied sciences @AcademicaUoAS | Dubliner | PhD @KingsCollegeLon | Keats devotee | persecuted by an integer
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@hardy-seifert.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 10:34 AMReposted by @carlhendrick.substack.com

#BlueLZ
"On the same page he writes that “without knowledge, there can be no learning of our subjects”, and two paragraphs later, of application, that “memory is a basic ingredient but it necessitates still ‘higher mental functioning’”. "

@calligaris.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 11:19 AMReposted by @carlhendrick.substack.com

“To suggest that evaluating an argument depends on knowledge and understanding is one thing; to conclude that teaching this knowledge is therefore an inferior educational activity is quite another. Yet this is the way that this concept has now become embedded in education.“

@carlhendrick.substack.comOct 10, 2026, 9:00 AM

NEW POST: The Untold Story of Bloom's Taxonomy and the Pyramid That Never Was carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-untold...

@brucenextlevel.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 6:25 AMReposted by @carlhendrick.substack.com

Power Up Your Curriculum is published tomorrow 😊

@carlhendrick.substack.com has written a brilliant foreword. Here’s part of it👇

Pre-order here: amzn.eu/d/0ixDGAaL

@carlhendrick.substack.comSep 14, 2026, 9:58 AM

An Alpha student's perspective on the bootcamp feedback challenge austinscholar.substack.com/p/austin-sch...

@brucenextlevel.bsky.socialSep 10, 2026, 5:18 PMReposted by @carlhendrick.substack.com

“This book crosses the theory–practice gap that swallows so much educational writing, and it does so without condescension and without jargon.” - @carlhendrick.substack.com

POWER UP YOUR CURRICULUM is published a fortnight today 😊

Pre-order here: amzn.eu/d/02b0KHVc

@tom-richmond.comSep 8, 2026, 7:48 AMReposted by @carlhendrick.substack.com

They'll be a lot of chatter about England's PISA results this morning, but we need to talk just as much about Wales. They rejected phonics and knowledge-rich curricula in favour of 'areas of learning', 'skills suites' and barely any testing. Wales is now 40 points below England in every domain.

@carlhendrick.substack.comSep 8, 2026, 1:13 PM

‘Hasty readers’, the PISA decline and what happens when you prioritise skills over knowledge carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-great-...

@carlhendrick.substack.comSep 5, 2026, 9:34 AM

Roundup of latest learning science including new research on explaining answers, building knowledge, reading instruction, social media and the conditions under which AI helps students learn. substack.com/home/post/p-...

@benpatrickwill.bsky.socialAug 29, 2026, 6:49 PMReposted by @carlhendrick.substack.com

Has a commercial edtech company or school chain ever had the press attention of Alpha School? Getting in Scientific American seems like a big win for Alpha School PR. Reckon it's also a clear sign of its strategy to claim *scientific* legitimacy. www.scientificamerican.com/article/alph...

@carlhendrick.substack.comNov 21, 2025, 6:42 AM

New study on motivation: classrooms where mastery goals are normal seem to produce students whose perseverance grows instead of fading. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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