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My latest essay says, I worry that civil discourse around CRT is not going to happen. Instead, parents who most believe in civil discourse will simply pull their children out of public schools, rather...
View ArticleDon’t send your kids to college
From a poll of recent college grads: Nearly one in five (17%) college grads polled still don’t know how to cook or do their own laundry. Twenty-six percent are also feeling lost when it comes to basic...
View ArticleContingent U
The AAUP reports, In fall 2019, 63.0 percent of faculty members were on contingent appointments; 20.0 percent were full-time contingent faculty members and 42.9 percent were part-time contingent...
View ArticleContra Alexander
Scott Alexander writes, In this model, we end up with Woke Capital because Apple and Amazon are run by programmers, by managers who used to be programmers, and by MBA finance people – and all of those...
View ArticleNull Hypothesis watch
Scott Alexander writes, Some parents “unschool” their children. That is, they object to schooling as traditionally understood, so they register themselves as home schooling but don’t formally teach...
View ArticleWhy math education has suffered
Percy Deift, Svetlana Jitomirskaya, and Sergiu Klainerman write, Far too few American public-school children are prepared for careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This...
View ArticleFITs update no. 8
It starts with Noah Smith gets a lot of Devil’s Advocate points in this interview with Larry Summers. Larry scores a clear Open Mind point with this response:
View ArticleAn ethnic studies curriculum
From FAIR. A few topics: The Declaration of Independence and the Problem of Slavery Native Americans and the American Revolution “Indians” vs. Many Tribes: Native American Diversity Chief John Ross and...
View ArticleSchools and restorative justice
Michael Goldstein writes, Here’s sort of what you wanted to read about: Rand Corporation RCT of “Restorative Justice” which includes measures of achievement. “The most troubling thing: There were...
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Kevin Mahnken reports, Thirteen-year-olds saw unprecedented declines in both reading and math between 2012 and 2020, according to scores released this morning from the National Assessment of...
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