Thoughts On Education

Radical educational acceleration is the way to the future!
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@tracewoodgrains @ProfJayDaigle More related to your original tweet in this thread, E.D. Hirsch Jr., a good friend of Rorty, would maybe say that the most successful message is one that is also told to all of your peers, particularly when they are young.

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@tracewoodgrains @ProfJayDaigle You might like this by him. It's not really related to his work that would be related to your original tweet, though. https://t.co/viYuBglHD1

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@tracewoodgrains Also, not a real category as it's used in practice sounds about right.

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@tracewoodgrains Was mostly joking with that comment. I was surprised to see in an essay draft a while back (perhaps because I've not read all you've published online) that you gave them both as examples of names that needed rectification.

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@texasrunnerDFW @mattyglesias You mean not "comfortably afford a median-priced home." A quick look at Zillow and you'll see lots of lower-priced homes that she could buy.

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I still wish the teacher I contacted in Young, AZ, would have responded back when I asked about what they were experiencing when half of their students apparently started using vouchers. I'm pretty sure it didn't close their school, but I'm very curious what has happened.

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

“School choice doesn’t destroy good schools; it reveals which schools were already failing their students and gives families alternatives.” @JasonBedrick and @matthewladner

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For a good argument about this point from someone that wouldn't say this lightly, read Hannah Arendt's "The Crisis in Education."

[Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” @MrDanielBuck]

CLASSROOMS AREN’T DEMOCRACIES

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@AlexGodofsky @keltz_ They had just made a new course for the honors class and now they are nixing it. The real waste of money was in that course creation (which was apparently poorly done as the honors bio students didn't have better outcomes than the regular bio students).

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@keltz_ @AlexGodofsky "their class toward the students either on the higher end or the lower end of those skills. I feel like it will be a challenge to adequately prepare students for Chem Honors in an undifferentiated class."

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@keltz_ @AlexGodofsky One of the Chemistry Honors teachers was saying that it was an issue: "Because Bio is a class that everyone has to take to graduate, the range of student skills in the class is very wide. Breaking it into honors and regular lanes makes it much more feasible for teachers to gear

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@tracewoodgrains @teortaxesTex I think ed acceleration could help a lot with changing demographic trends, decreasing the gender wage gap, and reinvigorating various institutions

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@tracewoodgrains @teortaxesTex A while back when I thought I'd do more in the education space (still intend to some day) I was going to reach out to them for some interviews. They, at least the parents, seem eager to help other families to accelerate their children's education.

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@BarryGarelick @ParkerPhonics @AltB56073878 @RCsEvilTwin @rastokke @erickalenze @amandavande1 Speeling bee's require an understanding of history and etymology. Math facts? No understanding needed, they are devoid of meaning.

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@rcraigen @DebraNeufeld2 @P_A_Kirschner @rnelson696 @greg_ashman I will! I'm a drill shill

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@BarryGarelick @rastokke @rcraigen @amandavande1 @erickalenze @robrandel @garein @jemmaths @AltB56073878 What in the world is happening with that font?

Also, I think the derogatory term for the sort of behavior demonstrated by this educator is "gatekeeping."

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@rcraigen @DebraNeufeld2 @P_A_Kirschner @rnelson696 @greg_ashman Speed drills don't necessarily kill enjoyment! It's as simple as having kids track their progress by keeping track of how many they get right over time. Seeing that number increase is super motivational for a lot of kids

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Even if we could figure a way to teach kids more in less time, we should be using that knowledge to teach kids more rather than less.

[Laura McKenna, PhD @laura11D]

Reducing time in school is a really, really, really BAD idea. https://t.co/FqviYgU7Ys

[Laura McKenna, PhD @laura11D]

Reducing time in school is a really, really, really BAD idea. https://t.co/FqviYgU7Ys