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The educational crisis narrative is downstream of the labour market: we destroyed the jobs that did not need a degree and then ordered schools to make everybody degree-ready.

Drawn from what Freddie deBoer said

SubjectsAI and jobseducation
What these subjects mean

AI and jobs Whether AI displaces human work, which jobs go first, and what replaces them.

education How children are taught and tested: schools, tutoring, what a lesson at the right level does, and what AI changes.

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What Freddie deBoer actually said

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  1. Freddie deBoer

    Writer with a PhD in English who taught writing for years

    Everybody thinks our schools are in crisis all the time because they’re being forced to do something they were never meant to do, which is to make everyone college-ready, and they’re being forced to do that because we have seen jobs that provide a living wage without a college diploma evaporate.

    Where this was said

    ↗What People Want From Our Schools Has Never Been Accomplished, Anywhere, Everfreddiedeboer.substack.com

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