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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Matthew Yglesias quoted
Writes Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American…
Their wordsPublic schools only work if people with financial and social capital participate.
↗Live your values, and adopt values to live byslowboring.com
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer
Their wordsDSA was always meant to be a filter for a mix of college education + willingness to learn something pointless
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Elon Musk quoted
Founded SpaceX in 2002
Their wordsThere are many areas of India, as there are in all countries, with no Internet access, which denies children the opportunity for education and for small businesses the opportunity to sell their goods to a global market.
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Noah Smith quoted
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
Their wordsWe say top schools discriminate against "Asians", but actually they're mostly discriminating against Indians.
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Matthew Yglesias quoted
Our readingMaking it harder for schools to build a business model around nonperforming loans is a good idea
Their wordsmaking it harder for schools to build a business model around nonperforming loans is a good idea
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Matthew Yglesias quoted
Their wordsThe federal government should not be subsidizing higher-education scams!
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Paul Graham quoted
Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb
Their wordsIn England, students choose just a few subjects (usually 3) to study in the last 2 years of high school, so gender differences in their interests become more visible than in the US.
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsincreasing funding for the highest-funded schools might actually be good
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsthese schools are substitute parents, for kids who NEED substitute parents
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Molly Graham quoted
Co-founder of Glue Club and The Guild
Their wordsthe future will be defined by the people that learn not the people that know.
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 2nd of 20 in this recording
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Terence Tao quoted
Their wordsImproper usage of AI offloads thinking, understanding and learning, thus mortgaging future mathematical development.
↗A value-based approach to mathematicsterrytao.wordpress.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Terence Tao quoted
Their wordsThe value of math, like so many other forms of knowledge, also comes from the process, not just the product.
↗A value-based approach to mathematicsterrytao.wordpress.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Tim Harford quoted
Economist and journalist
Their wordsNone of these methods guarantees success, but they do improve your odds because most setters of multiple-choice questions are more predictable than they realise.
↗Random is as random doestimharford.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Matthew Yglesias quoted
Their wordsBut the actual details of schools that serve high-need populations vary quite a lot, and it’s worth both engaging with the specifics of your local situation and thinking about the general policy questions.
↗Why I send my kid to low-income urban public schoolsslowboring.com
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Matthew Yglesias quoted
Their wordsBut the school was still a well-run, happy place for our child, who learned to navigate a much broader range of social interactions than if we’d sent him to school only with other affluent children, and the presence of a critical mass of affluent, educated, engaged parents I think made a real difference in the lives of the teachers and the students.
↗Why I send my kid to low-income urban public schoolsslowboring.com
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François Chollet quoted
Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark
Our readingPeople who built their understanding through code-centric workflows need new workflows to do so.
Their wordsIf code-centric workflows were how you developed that understanding, then you need new workflows.
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Rob Henderson quoted
Psychologist and writer
Their wordsBy four years of age, girls tend to think that boys are academically inferior to them. Teachers often see their female students as academically superior, even when aptitude tests show the opposite pattern for their classes.
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Dan Meyer quoted
Maths educator; writes Mathworlds on how mathematics…
Their wordsThe public can debate those goals, of course, but they require resources, chief among them time. Doing more stuff generally requires more time. One weird trick for saving time, more and more parents are learning, is to commit to fewer goals.
↗Your Kids Can Learn 10x Less in 10x Less Time!danmeyer.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Derek Thompson quoted
Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra…
Their wordsThe value of a degree is in question, as tuition costs have increased in the last few decades while the college premium-the expected benefit from getting a diploma-has flatlined and possibly even declined in the last few years.
↗Why Harvard's Dean 'Encourages' Students to Use AIderekthompson.org 1st of 2 in this piece
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Tim Ferriss quoted
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans
Their wordsEager kids are dramatically underserved by today's education system
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Daniel W. Drezner quoted
Political scientist writing Drezner’s World on international relations
Their wordsThere is nothing wrong with promoting perspectives that have political commitments; in fact, intellectual diversity requires this, because some viewpoints include political commitments.
↗That’s Not How Academic Freedom Works, Vanderbilt Trustees!!danieldrezner.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Daniel W. Drezner quoted
Their wordsAn institution must remain neutral with regard to the ideological beliefs of its faculty.
↗That’s Not How Academic Freedom Works, Vanderbilt Trustees!!danieldrezner.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Dan Meyer quoted
Their wordsEdtech psychosis flourishes wherever a giant tech company's free cash flow meets education's threadbare operating budgets.
↗How to Inoculate Yourself Against Edtech Psychosisdanmeyer.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Anish Acharya quoted
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Their wordsThe most important thing that we can do with AI to change the kind of conversation around it is make important things cheap. There's two things that are extraordinarily important in America that have only gotten more expensive, right? Health care and education.
↗Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)youtube.com 14th of 20 in this recording
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Kenneth Reitz quoted
Programmer, photographer and musician
Our readingWidely shared interface conventions amount to a form of mass education nobody enrolled in.
Their wordsScale this across people using the same conventions, and interface design starts to look like a form of mass education with no enrollment process.
↗The Interface Is the Curriculumkennethreitz.org 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Tiago Forte quoted
Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management
Their wordsThe deeper lesson is that education has to be research-based and proven to work measurably, not just based on positive emotions or customer satisfaction.
↗Sold a Story: How We Failed to Teach Kids to Readfortelabs.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Tiago Forte quoted
Their wordsI think a lot of traditional sources of information and education - from cable news to newspapers to textbooks to teachers - are being replaced by digital content creators.
↗Sold a Story: How We Failed to Teach Kids to Readfortelabs.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Joe Liemandt quoted
Founder of Trilogy Software and principal of Alpha School
Their wordsWe have universal access. What we are trying to do is bring universal learning. So there's a vast disparity in how much kids learn during that 12 years that while they may have access to it, learning is very different.
↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 1st of 26 in this recording
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Joe Liemandt quoted
Their wordsAnd so what we think is because of new things that have become available and things like AI and technology for the first time in 50 and 100 years you can revisit and change education. How we educate kids is going to be radically different in 5 years and 10 years than the last 50 and 100 years.
↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 2nd of 26 in this recording
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Paul Bloom quoted
Psychologist at the University of Toronto and professor emeritus at Yale
Their wordsthe claim here is that arguments about smartphones, bullying, and homework are arguments about values, often moral values
↗Kids These Dayssmallpotatoes.paulbloom.net 3rd of 3 in this piece