Adele Baron

the emperor has no clothes

[Adele Baron @adelebaron_]

Low-maintenance women attract low-effort men.

[Echo 🔆 @TheEcho13]

When a man says he wants a ‘low drama, easygoing woman’, he often means “I want a woman who will absorb my moods, tolerate my inconsistency, never challenge me, and thank me for the bare minimum”.

He is not describing compatibility. He is describing how much emotional labor he expects you to do without ever calling it work.

[Michael Powell @powellAtlantic]

Humanitarian impulse gone terribly awry. Policies that gave addicts clean needles and places to use drugs were intended to reduce harm. They created a “zombie apocalypse.” My exploration of radical harm reduction:
https://t.co/D0iivm1U5S

[Adele Baron @adelebaron_]

@cardamomkiss My midwife told me she has never seen an unmarried mom get postpartum depression.

[Adele Baron @adelebaron_]

@queens_parents @kourouklislaw @NYC_DOT Yes! Also, e-bikes do not belong in bike lanes.

[Adele Baron @adelebaron_]

@AllTheBarrels @JeremiahDJohns Yes & beyond non-judgmental, it feels respectful to women. Often, when men wear women’s clothes, it feels mocking. People the in comments saying this only works because it’s a celebrity don’t get it. I loved this the first time I saw it, before I had ever heard of Tom Holland

[Handre @Handre]

Congress hands out money to make college affordable, and college promptly becomes less affordable. You would think someone in Washington might notice the pattern by now.

The mechanics are straightforward. When the federal government offers a student an extra few thousand dollars in Pell Grant money, the student does not pocket the difference and buy groceries. The university does. A 2015 study by the New York Fed found that each dollar of subsidized loan expansion pushed sticker tuition up by roughly 60 cents. Pell Grants track the same logic. Give buyers more purchasing power for a good in fixed supply, and the seller raises the price. Demand curves do exactly what they do.

Think about who runs a university. An administrator watching a fresh river of guaranteed federal cash flow toward eighteen-year-olds is not going to leave that money on the table. He hires more deans. He builds a climbing wall. He funds another diversity office, then raises tuition to cover it, secure in the knowledge that the grant will absorb the hike. The student feels no pain at the moment of purchase, which is the entire problem.

Between 1980 and 2020, published tuition at four-year public colleges rose faster than health care, faster than housing, faster than nearly anything the government has not touched. The correlation with federal aid expansion is not subtle.

Free market economists have explained this for a century: subsidize consumption of a scarce good and you inflate its price, not its supply. Pell Grants do not make college cheaper. They transfer taxpayer money to administrators. Then the kids graduate poorer.

[Daniel Idfresne @danielidfresne]

If New York wants more black and Hispanic students at specialized high schools, it should fix the broken K-8 pipeline that leaves too many students unprepared long before they take the test.

Do not lower the bar and call it justice. Don’t break the city’s best schools

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

I spent (this is no exaggeration) at least 10 minutes trying to get Google to bring up an article I wrote a few years ago. Even putting in long, exact quotes didn’t work. I eventually had to just use the search function on the outlet’s website. Google has become all but unusable.

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

Reminding Again: Zohran's family still keeps this mansion in Uganda in the richest neighborhood of Kampala surrounded by armed security because everyone else is so poor.

[Adele Baron @adelebaron_]

https://t.co/ksLBCo5De2

[The Grade @thegrade_]

"Sometimes, panics are overblown. Sometimes, older generations are just freaking out about the youngs, as they have since time immemorial. That’s not the case, unfortunately, with kids’ learning right now..."

https://t.co/SQCSKbP0aR

[Adele Baron @adelebaron_]

Just when I think I can let go of my anger...

https://t.co/rNjVx2Ixcy

[Bhamini makwana @habitchamps]

@MrZachG Math is not hard. It’s perceived hard because we don’t focus on building good math foundations in kids. Without a good foundation in calculation skills, it will be hard to do any math.

[Adele Baron @adelebaron_]

@karenvaites Another factor that contributed to the audience for critiques of balanced literacy was remote school. Before remote school, I had just trusted teachers as experts to teach my kids. It wasn't until their classes were in my living room that I realized how misplaced that trust was.

[Adele Baron @adelebaron_]

@ask_aubry Reading the comments, all I can think is that the bar for men is so low.

[Adele Baron @adelebaron_]

@Beanie0597 This was my kid's old school. Admin talked a lot about SEL & "centering joy." I moved him to a new school where SEL is being held accountable for your actions & centering joy is feeling safe because you know other kids will be held accountable too.

[Adele Baron @adelebaron_]

@stephmurrayyyy Is it revelatory that men don't trust men around their daughters? What about, "I have a shotgun to scare boys away from my daughter." Or religions (created by men) that force women to cover their entire bodies because men cannot be trusted.

[Adele Baron @adelebaron_]

@stephmurrayyyy Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh is the most perfect children's book ever written (I will die on this hill). It's great for 6 year olds and 7 year olds and 8 year olds and 48 year olds.

Also, I know you only asked for one, but The House on Pooh Corner is great for that age.

[Adele Baron @adelebaron_]

This article is nearly 10 years old. Nothing has changed. If anything it's gotten worse.

[Adele Baron @adelebaron_]

"The ratio of rich math whizzes to poor ones is 3 to 1 in South Korea and 3.7 to 1 in Canada...In the U.S., it is 8 to 1...By the end of high school, the percentage of low-income advanced-math learners rounds to zero."
https://t.co/gSnmkdCujm