Brookings' 'Reasoning Crisis' Framing Travels Fast Because Teachers Want It To

A study becomes a headline when it lands in a community already primed to receive it. The Brookings premortem did not introduce the 'students can't reason' claim to teachers — it institutionalized a fear that had been circulating in staff rooms and education forums for months. What the Bluesky reshares ^[2][3] reveal is not engagement with the study's methodology but endorsement of its conclusion. That is a meaningful distinction: the report is being used as authority, not as evidence to be weighed.