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2/‘a parent does not have to be a professional educator to evaluate the results of the public education of his children. The primary responsibility for a child’s education rests with the parent. This right cannot be usurped by the educator or by the state.’ https://t.co/YVKLMZxbSz

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Imagine profoundly missing the point of education. If you improve the community around the community (like Zohran intends to), then the need for G&T programs decreases. You have to believe that all kids can learn or you shouldn’t be commenting on education, period.

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Teachers teach, test, reteach to those who need it. Disruptive kids get Zoom-in-a-room for the rest of the lesson. Is Houston a "miracle" or common sense? https://t.co/JRiT4a2xjm #teaching... See more

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Students who have been treated as smart since elementary school may go off to private colleges that spend up to $350,000 per student per year. Meanwhile many of the less gifted students, who quickly perceive that teachers don’t value them the same way, will end up at community colleges that may spend only $17,000 per pupil per year. By adulthood, t... See more

David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America

Through the writing of our students we are reminded of their individuality. We are reminded, whatever subject we are charged with teaching, that our ultimate charge is to produce broadly educated men and women with a sense of stewardship for the world they live in.

William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All

What distinguished libertarians from mainstream pro-business Republicans—Mailer’s parade of delegates in Miami Beach—was their pure and uncompromising idea. What was it? Hayek: “Planning leads to dictatorship.” The purpose of government is to secure individual rights, little else.

George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal

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AI, like every tech innovation before it, is quickly seized upon to justify yet another iteration of progressive educational tropes that were old before WWI. Human minds, however, are resistant to such clumsy hacking. Project work for novices leads to inept guessing and insecure learning. Because you can’t hack your way around the parameters of how... See more

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@ryan_landay @QuasLacrimas The problem with education is the operating asset base, namely teachers. Many (most?) cannot educate the top 5% without a rigid curriculum, whose purpose would be to keep teachers in line rather than students. Main reason to move to an Uber-style model for teaching.

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Meier felt that instead of just pushing information at kids, schools needed to teach them how to make sense of what they were being told so they would know what to make of it and what to do with it.

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David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America

William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All

George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal

Warren Berger • A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas