About a decade ago, China started doing a bunch of research and analysis around its (booming and hyper-competitive) after-school private tutoring industry. After several years of researchers and policymakers dissecting its impact on education, culture, families, students, society https://t.co/63BtVXltPZ
About a decade ago, China started doing a bunch of research and analysis around its (booming and hyper-competitive) after-school private tutoring industry. After several years of researchers and policymakers dissecting its impact on education, culture, families, students, society https://t.co/63BtVXltPZ
When the calculator was first introduced in schools, the reaction was surprisingly close to the initial concerns I hear about students using AI for tasks like writing today.
Ethan Mollick • Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
Early on, the unexpectedly high birth rate meant everything was crowded: first maternity wards, and then schools.
Jean M. Twenge • Generations
Within these sorts of schedules, there is little tolerance or space for the things we say we want to nurture in children: creativity, imagination, spontaneity, the patience borne of extended boredom, space to really feel your emotions, or any activity that can’t be boiled down into a potential line on a future college application. (There’s also lit... See more
Culture Study • The Diminishing Returns of Calendar Culture
Despite its well-known effectiveness, tutoring’s modern incarnation almost universally concerns specific tests: in America the Advanced Placements (AP) tests, the SATs, and the GREs form the holy trinity of private tutoring. Meaning that contemporary tutoring, the most effective method of education, is overwhelmingly targeted at a small set of meas... See more
Erik Hoel • Why We Stopped Making Einsteins
What results is a national education system that deepens the economic class divide and makes curiosity available to those who have position, wealth, and the luxury of time without the burden of labor.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
As the birth rate declined and families grew smaller, parents had fewer children and protected them more carefully. That meant not leaving them at home alone.