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Educator & ed researcher. Currently focusing on how to develop better tests, for instruction and for democratic oversight of schools.

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A pile of lumber is not a house.

Cookie dough is not cookies.

An acorn is not an oak tree.

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@pegobry_en @mattyglesias @Noahpinion The New York City public school system has over 1 MILLION students.

You think that people who live in apartments can’t have children?

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@rickhess99 And ELA teachers to discuss empathy and our common humanity, as those are dominant themes across literature.

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@GaryWinslett @mattyglesias Tracking has become a much broader term, over the years

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@GaryWinslett @mattyglesias It is interesting to me how there is confusion about the difference between ability grouping/differentiated instruction and tracking.

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@oren_cass No, that actually is what mansplaining means. It’s not about gender; that’s to something that some men often do, especially to women. But both men and women can mansplain, and can be mansplained to.

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@EmilyRPeck After announcing who he was.

Held on the ground and handcuffed.

At most, for interrupting the administration’s political theater with political theater.

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@jackbripplebrap @justin_fenton That’s what I was thinking.

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@rickhess99 Did you read the honored piece before attacking it publicly?

Are you citing and characterizing works you’ve not read? If so, that really shoddy scholarship and shoddy journalism.

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@charlesmurray @rickhess99 OK, I’ll bite. What is the share a federally funded research that fits this description?

Heck, how much of the research that Rick complains about is federally funded at all?

I’ve gone to sessions like that, read papers, and not seen federal grants mentioned.

Show me I’m wrong.

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@BenjySarlin @mattyglesias But what if you give him money AND a shiny new toy?

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@JaredWalczak Around 15 years ago, I heard an expert say that surveys have a 5% error rate on the mechanical level. That is, 5% of respondents offered reported a sex/gender that did not match good records.

In more recent years, I have wondered if that was simply about trans respondents.

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@KJWinEducation @rickhess99 It’s hard to interpret this because formerly American Values (eg pluralism, strong public schools, respect for the rule of law) are partisan issues.

As are values we had moved past (eg lesser rights/opportunities for women, blatantly racism immigration barrier).

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@mattyglesias That was my thought

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@mattyglesias @JohnHCochrane @paulkrugman This really seems to be the key point when evaluating Kevin Hassett, doesn’t it?

Gotta do better than him as someone who illustrates the other view among economists of tariffs

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@johnmarknewman There are so many important policy ideas that would improve lives for millions of people that will not address the particular cluster of problems you are talking about.

That does not make them bad ideas or any less worth talking about.

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@econJaredB @mattyglesias Maybe they could offer labor and environmental concessions to equalize costs?

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@SiegelMicha @LauraEWeiss16 @RepLaLota The argument—which I don’t buy—is that housing costs, property taxes and income taxes in the northeast are far higher than others realize. “Middle class” people get hard paying all those taxes.

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@PMtalking @LauraEWeiss16 @RepLaLota It’s not super strong but it DOES exist.

* Why should you pay taxes on money you don’t get? Yeah, tax you on YOUR money, but not on the money you pay in taxes.

* if you can deduct charitable donations, why not taxes paid?

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@DavidAstinWalsh Why do you think context is not part of what is considered when discussing an idea’s merits?

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