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Richard P Phelps

@richardpphelps.bsky.social
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Education Policy, Program Evaluation, Testing & Measurement, and Muck Raking; author The Malfunction of US Education Policy: Elite Misinformation, Disinformation, and Selfishness (Rowman & Littlefield/Bloomsbury, 2023)

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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #academicsky
blogs.lse.ac.uk
Economics journals are governed by a shrinking elite - LSE Impact
Journal growth in economics has stalled, member turnover has collapsed, and boards have become stable and insular. Does a lack of diversity hold the field back?
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Climbed Mt. Bierstadt last week; named for the painter, Albert Bierstadt.
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/09/03/p...
cnn.com
Missouri Supreme Court blocks Trump-backed US House map and orders it be put to a vote | CNN Politics
The Missouri Supreme Court has unanimously blocked new congressional districts backed by President Donald Trump from being used in the November election and ordered a statewide vote on whether to upho...
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
View, mid-day, from John Rock past Looking Glass Rock.
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Musa al-Gharbi on cancellation www.chronicle.com/article/jaso...
chronicle.com
Opinion | Jason Arday and Me
Getting canceled is a fast track to despair and anomie.
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The miracle of RCV’s ranked ballots democracysos.substack.com/p/the-miracl...
democracysos.substack.com
The miracle of RCV’s ranked ballots
The profound facility of ranked ballots is under-appreciated, even as the incentives unleashed delivers better choices, better campaigns and better governance
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Congress must curtail the FCC’s speech regulation authority open.substack.com/pub/protectd...
open.substack.com
Congress must curtail the FCC’s speech regulation authority
A practical legislative agenda to check an out-of-control agency
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
researchseed.com/blog/the-fir...
researchseed.com
The Firstness Fallacy: How 'Literature Cleansing' became the New Predatory Frontier
A deep dive into the systemic incentives that reward scholars for ignoring existing literature to claim artificial novelty. This investigation explores the ethical boundary between a study rationale a...
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Most of the time, it's not really about the dishes. It's about who remembered to buy the dish soap, planned the meals, and scheduled the pediatrician appointment. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criti… #mentalload #cognitivelabor
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The narrative that #antidepressants don't work is reaching patients who already don't want to take medication. Dr. Andrew Novick has watched the consequences. Untreated depression carries real risks - including suicide. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criti…
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Dum-Dum Democrats about to shoot themselves in the foot democracysos.substack.com/p/dum-dum-de...
democracysos.substack.com
Dum-Dum Democrats about to shoot themselves in the foot
The Democratic National Committee will vote Aug 15 on a ban of Ranked Choice Voting in its presidential primaries. Stooo-pid!
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Elon Musk is Trying to Kill Alaskan Voting Rights ivn.us/elon-musk-is...
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Elon Musk is Trying to Kill Alaskan Voting Rights
Elon Musk has funneled $1.5 million into efforts to repeal Alaska's Top Four open primary system, which lets all voters participate in primaries regardless of party affiliation.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 10/08/2026
📝 Missourians have fought for nearly a year to put a referendum on the November ballot that would give them a chance to veto a GOP gerrymander. Now, Republicans are reusing tried-and-true delay tactics in an attempt to kill the voter referendum — and they know time is of the essence.
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Missouri Republicans go judge shopping to run out clock on redistricting referendum lawsuit
Read more here.
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The Successful Degradation of Evidence on Educational Testing in the United States (powerpoint slides) www.richardphelps.net/ITC_2021old.... #edusky #academicsky
richardphelps.net
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
pewresearch.org
What do Americans think about language learning in U.S. schools?
Four-in-ten Americans say it is extremely or very important for children growing up in the U.S. to learn a language other than English.
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
What Pro Wrestling Can Teach Academia About Honesty open.substack.com/pub/heterodo...
open.substack.com
What Pro Wrestling Can Teach Academia About Honesty
What the campy world of professional wrestling can teach academics about truth, performance, and the courage to break character
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The two-branch doom loop open.substack.com/pub/protectd...
open.substack.com
The two-branch doom loop
Eight ways to check the Supreme Court's role in the authoritarian project
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
aeon.co/essays/are-w...
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-L3...
youtube.com
How Massachusetts Became the National Model for Voc-Tech Education
YouTube video by Pioneer Institute
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
www.astralcodexten.com/p/psychology...
astralcodexten.com
Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
#Narcissism isn't just confidence or vanity - it's a clinical diagnosis with specific criteria. And the most dangerous version, malignant narcissism, goes even further. What actually qualifies and why does it matter? 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criti…
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
How to end the redistricting wars for good open.substack.com/pub/protectd...
open.substack.com
How to end the redistricting wars for good
As mid-cycle redistricting escalates, one reform would keep the maps from mattering
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
thefulcrum.us/electoral-re...
thefulcrum.us
Closed Primaries Let 7% of Voters Choose 87% of Congress
A small, partisan electorate decides races long before most Americans can vote.
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
"This is not about me": the story of Mr. Ase open.substack.com/pub/yellowhe...
open.substack.com
"This is not about me": the story of Mr. Ase
-book excerpt from "Unbalanced: Memoir of an Immigrant Math Teacher"
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
pioneerinstitute.org/massachusett...
pioneerinstitute.org
Massachusetts Has a New Graduation Framework. It Still Needs a Stronger Accountability System
Today's ruling is a serious disappointment for Massachusetts families struggling under one of the highest tax and cost burdens in the nation. The Court's decision rests on a drafting error in the Atto...
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The Regents of the University of California will meet on July 14-15 regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/meetings/age... The policy committee of the National Council on Measurement in Education covered the UC Regents’ test-blind decision: www.youtube.com/watch?v=US6Y... #edusky #academicsky
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Notice of Regents Meeting, July 14-15, 2026 | Board of Regents
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
www.act.org/content/act/...
act.org
ETS Acquires ACT Newsroom
ETS announced today that it is acquiring ACT, one of the most widely recognized names in college and career readiness.
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
thefulcrum.us/electoral-re...
thefulcrum.us
The American Experiment at the Brink Due To Minority Rule
The challenge for continuing the American Experiment is recovering from the "Second Gilded Age" (1980s to the present). As of early 2026, the U.S. national debt is 122% to 125% of Gross Domestic Produ...
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
educationrickshaw.com/2026/06/15/s...
educationrickshaw.com
S5E31: Katharine Beals on Facilitated Communication and Educational Pseudoscience
Welcome back to Progressively Incorrect. I’m your host, Zach Groshell. Education is filled with myths. Some are harmless. Others shape curriculum, teacher training, intervention programs, and the l…
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Shen, Visual Models, Procedural Fluency, and Multiple Strategies: A Cognitive Critique of Common Core Elementary Mathematics (review) nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Revie... #edusky
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Top Researchers May Suppress More Information Than They Provide: Surveying NBER Dismissive Literature Reviews www.nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Artic...
nonpartisaneducation.org
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Researchers at MIT studied what happens to your brain when AI does your thinking for you. What the science shows about outsourcing cognition and what we're trading away without knowing it. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criti… #AI @natwexler.bsky.social
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Memory champions have used this technique for decades. Now neuroscience shows exactly what it does to the brain. Dr. Boris Konrad explains how anyone can use it. 🎧 ➡️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criti… #neuroscience #memoryhealth @borisnkonrad.bsky.social
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Having a good #memory and having trained your memory are two different things. Only one is within your control. Dr. @borisnkonrad.bsky.social shares the technique world memory champions use and how to start using it yourself. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criti…
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
Exclusive: NSF watchdog unit is no longer investigating research misconduct
New policy hands universities the reins in probing allegations against faculty
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
6 States Vote June 2. Independent Voters Don’t Have the Same Rights in Any of Them. ivn.us/6-states-vot...
ivn.us
6 States Vote June 2. Independent Voters Don’t Have the Same Rights in Any of Them.
June 2 primary elections are being held in several states across the US. And when it comes to independent voters and their rights, none of them have the same rules.
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Essay...
nonpartisaneducation.org
The Gauntlet: Think tanks and federal research centers misrepresent and suppress other education research
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #edusky #academicsky
blogs.lse.ac.uk
Dismissive literature reviews reduce understanding – so why do academics keep making them? - LSE Impact
Richard Phelps argues there is rarely a lack of pre-existing literature, but claiming so is a rhetorical move to give priority to one’s own research.
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
www.learningscientists.org/blog/2026/4/...
learningscientists.org
A Framework for Student Performance — The Learning Scientists
Today I want to share with you a framework that I use to talk to students about their exam performance. This framework can be applied to any situation in which a person is being assessed on the spot.
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
pewresearch.org
Americans stand out internationally for their pessimism about the nation’s political system | Pew Research Center
People in higher-income countries are generally less likely to say their nation’s political system needs major changes or complete reform. Americans are an exception.
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Think you're too young or too smart to fall for a scam? The people most at risk aren't who you'd expect. 💭 Understand the psychology behind why we fall victim to these scams: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criti… #phishing #cyberfraud
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
When the gut is out of balance, it triggers chronic systemic inflammation and that inflammation sends direct signals to the cells responsible for breaking down bone. 🎧 Understand what's really behind #boneloss: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criti… #osteoporosis
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Citation Cartels, Dismissive Literature Reviews, and Big Money Dominate US Education Policy Brainiacs Journal www.brainiacsjournal.org/arc/pub/Phel... www.BrainiacsJournal.org #edusky #ResearchIntegrity
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www.BrainiacsJournal.org
Brain Health Alliance provides education and research in support of maintaining and improving brain health and fitness, and preventing and curing brain diseases and disorders.
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
www.persuasion.community/p/ideologica...
persuasion.community
Why Independent Magazines Are Dying
The Liberal Patriot’s closure reveals how donor demands and foundation neglect threaten publications that challenge ideological orthodoxy.
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
When schools ask students to figure things out on their own, they're asking them to build on a foundation that disappears instantly. Research proves there's a better way. 🔗 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dr-jo… #cognitivescience
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
deutsch29.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/m...
deutsch29.wordpress.com
Meta and Google Found Liable for Addictive Content Delivery
On March 25, 2026, mega tech companies Meta and Google were found liable for engineering the presentation of information on their platforms in such a way as to promote addiction to users. The key h…
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
Investigating the reproducibility of the social and behavioural sciences - Nature
A study of reproducibility in a stratified random sample of 600 papers published from 2009 to 2018 in 62 journals spanning the social and behavioural sciences finds higher reproducibility among more&n...
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
www.learningscientists.org/blog/2026/3/19
learningscientists.org
Retrieval Practice and Stress (repost) — The Learning Scientists
I recently remembered this post about retrieval practice and stress. I was talking to one of my students about r etrieval practice and stress, and went back to the blog to help me remember some aspec...
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Richard P Phelps @richardpphelps.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
chronicle.com
The Shortcut That Made College Harder
How California’s math reform left some students behind.
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Think you're immune to misinformation? Every expert we've talked to says that's the first sign you're not. Binge these episodes if you want to understand how information really works: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criti… #misinformation #conspiracytheories
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