🐂 Edward Nevraumont 🐂

CMO/Advisor/Tsundoku ex-@ga @aplaceformom @expedia @mckinsey @wharton @proctergamble Author- MarketingBS

[🐂 Edward Nevraumont 🐂 @Ednever]

A lot has been written about side hustles and how to make a living "working for yourself". But there IS a path to $1MM/year as a traditional employee. Here the framework that no one seems to acknowledge:

https://t.co/AnvogvZYh4

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@mikesully97 @DanaGoldstein I disagree on the top though. I think most top 1% kids are very underserved in the market. Lots of places to get smart peers and low teacher ratios. But the pedagogy is mostly no better than public schools

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@mikesully97 @DanaGoldstein Most of the cost is for fancy stuff that doesn’t matter for academics. Alpha has $10k schools called Nova that have similar performance on MAP improvements without the bells and whistles

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@mikesully97 @DanaGoldstein It’s point growth on the MAP compared to other kids at the same percentile

Most private schools don’t share anything so you can only compare to other kids at the same percentiles and it beats that by a lot

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@griswold @flowidealism I have an n=4 that does not….

We tried it with all three. Worked great for one. Okay for two. And one only eats pizza and hamburgers….

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@karenvaites Sorry- people hate surveillance but that might be the answer?

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@karenvaites Is the solution computers with monitoring on them?

Alpha has that but it could be a more general solution

People hate surveillance

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@mikesully97 @DanaGoldstein If you are at the 90th %ile your change in percentile is compared to other 90th %ile If you are at 50th you compare to 50th

Avg 90th gets much better every 3m. 50th not so much

So getting a 50th kid to 2x learning is a LOT easier than 2x for 90th

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@mikesully97 @DanaGoldstein That explains percentiles but it does not explain changes in percentile over time.

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@DanaGoldstein I expect 2x learning is happening MORE for the lowest percentile kids than the high percentile kids just because the bar is so low for the low percentile kids. It’s a lot easier to get a kid from 30th to 70th percentile than from 95th to 99th

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@timricchuiti @senderowiczj It’s 2x compared to kids at the same percentile level at the previous test they took. So if a kid is 3rd grade, 50th percentile in September at 2x learning he would be about 60th or 70th percentile in January.

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@TJHSSTParents @DanaGoldstein They used to use a ton of third party apps. But they have mostly replaced them with in-house stuff. Math is an exception because MA is so good there is no need to build in house. Alpha just scafoldes around it and reduces the friction for the kids to use it

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@TJHSSTParents @DanaGoldstein Math is 90%+ MathAcademy so easy to test at home. MA is excellent stand alone and Alpha only really adds motivation and some hole filling tools on top of it

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@castillodavidca @DanaGoldstein There is no prize for being at the top. Only prizes for improving and achieving mastery on grade levels

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Too much of education is built for the adults and not for the children

[Chrisman @chrisman]

Direct instruction is incredibly effective but never took off because it's boring for the teacher. Teachers, like all people, want to be creative in their job.

The solution is obvious: let software do the boring teaching work.

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@C_Hendrick I’m not sure where I stand on this one. Clearly the student needs to take responsibility. But it’s equally true that many schools and teachers take no responsibility on their students learning anything.

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@Aslans_Mane @artfuIchaos Why not do this as novels?

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@IncidentNoodle @tracewoodgrains What do you mean? World records are a huge deal and it’s absolute performance.

Athletes definitely want to win but they also work hard to improve their absolute performance.

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@C_Hendrick Carl are you getting involved in the “Life Skills” metrics for Alpha? It has a ton of these types of problems. Good intention but execution has a real gap and your tweet details it pretty well