Norma Ming

@mindmannered.bsky.social

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Co-creating and integrating evidence in practice to improve PK-20+ learning for individuals, systems, and society. Identities blend HS STEM teacher, university faculty, district administrator, cognitive scientist, education researcher. Views my own.

Bar graph showing temperature changes in San Francisco relative to 1961-2010 averages, from 1850 to 2024, in blue for colder and red for hotter. From 2000 on, all years except one are in the red.

Graphs showing the distribution of all girls vs. boys who started school in France in 2018 on math test results at three time points: (1) start of first year of school, (2) four months into first year, and (3) start of second year of school.
1. Boys and girls similar on average: slightly more boys in highest and lowest percentiles
2. Boys pull ahead: more boys in higher percentiles, more girls in lower percentiles
3. Gender gap becomes more exaggerated (at highest percentiles, ~3.6k boys vs. ~2.0k girls)

Cumulative number of protests from Jan 22 to Feb 28, comparing 2025 to 2017. Total numbers start at 0 for both, increasing at about twice the rate for 2025 as for 2017.