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StoryCorps and Braver Angels

Alan Schoenfeld, a math professor at Berkeley,

Thinking, Fast and Slow, and near the end of that book he came around to the really central question: “What can be done about biases? How can we improve judgments and decisions, both our own and those of the institutions that we serve and that serve us?”

comparison, other new teaching methods in science and engineering classrooms generally have effect sizes less than 1.0, and the largest effect size observed for an educational intervention before this had been 2.0—which was accomplished with the use of trained personal tutors.

Mass schooling attempts a systematization of skill and knowledge transfer. The results are predictably mediocre—systems at scale must function with and cater to the lowest common denominator, and the process of standardization loses all sensitivity to context. Since everyone must do the same things, it is difficult for any student to do exceptiona

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