Robert Pondiscio (@rpondiscio) / X

Robert Pondiscio

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Robert Pondiscio

@rpondiscio

Dad, teacher, volunteer fireman, American, senior fellow @AEI; author, "How the Other Half Learns." Free Substack: thenext30years.substack.com

Medusa, NY

Joined February 2008

Robert Pondiscio
@rpondiscio
Sep 18, 2024
The opacity of academic prose arises from the epistemological imperative to operationalize disciplinary jargon, facilitating intra-specialized discourse while obfuscating heterogenous interpretive accessibility and perpetuating a recursive dialectic of erudition and exclusion.
Martin Robinson
@Trivium21c
Sep 18, 2024
Why is academic writing so awful?
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Robert Pondiscio
@rpondiscio
Nov 4, 2024
A colleague just shared an email from a major university's public policy school, which is planning a "self-care suite" for students the day after the election featuring Legos, coloring, and milk & cookies. Folks, this isn't funny anymore. It's disturbing to treat adults like
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Robert Pondiscio
@rpondiscio
Nov 6, 2024
1980, Ronald Reagan: "Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet." 2024: Latinos are Republican. They know it.
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Robert Pondiscio
@rpondiscio
Dec 26, 2024
There are only four US newspapers with circulation over 1M (NYTs, WSJ, WashPost, USA Today). The astonishing growth of @TheFP is the most encouraging media story of the last 20 years. And it's happening for all the right reasons.
The Free Press
@TheFP
Dec 25, 2024
“Thank you so much to all 1 million and 23 of you. I'm pinching myself. I cannot believe that this is where we wound up in two years.” —@bariweiss (w/ an assist from @NellieBowles) Join The Free Press movement in 2025: thefp.com/subscribe
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Robert Pondiscio
@rpondiscio
Sep 27, 2025
This may be old news among education professionals, but it still hasn't reached the general public. When I mentioned on a public radio talk show a few weeks ago that Mississippi and other Southern states were leading the way on literacy, the other panelists *literally* LOLed.
Kelsey Piper
@KelseyTuoc
Sep 25, 2025
wrote today about how even if you've heard of Mississippi's surge in reading scores, you're probably underestimating it:
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Robert Pondiscio
@rpondiscio
Oct 13, 2024
Last week The New Republic called @elonmusk a “small man who is simply not very good at anything.” He just parallel parked a 250-ton rocket booster.
Sawyer Merritt
@SawyerMerritt
Oct 13, 2024
BREAKING: SpaceX just successfully caught its Super Heavy rocket booster in mid-air on its first try! This is the first time anyone has accomplished such a feat, marking one of the most significant engineering achievements in human history. Congrats @SpaceX team! 🚀
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Robert Pondiscio
@rpondiscio
Jul 14, 2024
We've grown unaccustomed to hearing it, but this is what grownups in politics sound like.
Governor Josh Shapiro
@GovernorShapiro
Jul 14, 2024
We lost a fellow Pennsylvanian last night: Corey Comperatore. Earlier today, I spoke to his wife and his two daughters. They asked me to share that Corey died a hero — diving on his family to protect them from danger. I’ve ordered United States and Commonwealth flags to be
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Robert Pondiscio
@rpondiscio
Jul 7, 2025
Said differently: the achievement gap is a family formation gap.
Lisa Britton
@LisaBritton
Jul 7, 2025
Wow… more than 85% of Virginian kids living with a mom and dad at home will earn mostly A’s and B’s, regardless of their race. Grades drop drastically in father-absent homes. Fathers are so important! @BradWilcoxIFS
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Robert Pondiscio
@rpondiscio
Oct 20, 2024
“Children need to see themselves in the books they read” is very near the top of the list of common ideas about teaching that are actually excuses for poor student outcomes.
James A. Furey
@JamesAFurey
Oct 20, 2024
Kids do not, in fact, need to “see themselves” in the books they read.
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Robert Pondiscio
@rpondiscio
Jul 1, 2024
Replying to @rweingarten
Where do you live that there are already dead, brown leaves on the ground on July 1?
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Robert Pondiscio
@rpondiscio
Aug 1, 2025
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the most common, persistent, and damaging education myth.
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Robert Pondiscio
@rpondiscio
May 3, 2025
I don’t think people fully grasp what this means: more than half of US families now have the ability to opt out of public schools and take the money with them. Disruption has come for public education. It will never be the same again.
Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist
@DeAngelisCorey
May 3, 2025
BREAKING: Governor Greg Abbott signed a universal school choice bill. Texas is now the 16th state to pass universal school choice. This win is the biggest day-one school choice victory in U.S. history.
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Robert Pondiscio
@rpondiscio
Jul 14, 2024
Someone died today attending a political rally. If there is a clearer example of a "threat to democracy" I don't know what it is.
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Robert Pondiscio
@rpondiscio
Oct 31, 2025
There has been speculation that conservatives have been distancing themselves from @Heritage over the past 24 hours. I want to put that to rest right now—here are my thoughts: It’s true, appropriate, and necessary.
Kevin Roberts
@KevinRobertsTX
Oct 30, 2025
There has been speculation that @Heritage is distancing itself from @TuckerCarlson over the past 24 hours. I want to put that to rest right now—here are my thoughts:
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