Dan Carr

Edu researcher + microeconomist. Once a teacher (via @TeachForAU) now at @EdResearchAU with @D_AccessEcon, @EduPolicyInst & @B_I_Team in between

[Eric Crampton @EricCrampton]

Australia's tobacco policy remains world-leading, if the goal is to reduce market share for 'Big Tobacco'.

[Dan Carr @danmcarr]

@PaulKohlerSW19 Reminds me of 2 recent similar stories. I fear the long-run impact of such employer policies. Rational for each firm, but might there be a societal cost in the long-run when the odds of executing a 'frictionless' robbery go up?

https://t.co/dGEUaA7MKe

https://t.co/94uRZ1Pveg

[Dan Carr @danmcarr]

@HowardFMaclean The failure to wrestle with downsides to policy solutions proposed in many an ABC piece (to discuss tradeoffs as you say) consistently frustrates me. I notice it in their coverage of financial scams in particular - banking would be very gummed up if all their ideas were realized!

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

You cannot teach critical thinking. You can teach domain specific expertise, which enables you to think critically about that domain. Brilliant chess players do not make great military commanders.

More problematically, people who think they have great critical thinking skills are often the ones who get hoodwinked by any fashionable idea, because they lack the domain expertise to interrogate nonsense.

[Dan Carr @danmcarr]

@themetresgained @abcnews surely it all traces back - somehow - to the Atlas network right?

[Dan Carr @danmcarr]

Tell me you've never read The Economist without telling me...

[Saul Sadka @Saul_Sadka]

The Economist, in its “fighting back the tears” obituary for Khamenei, salivates with true depravity over Trump’s future death in grisly, if ecstatic, terms: “...when Mr. Trump’s body was ashes, eaten by worms and ants.” It makes the Washington Post and its infamous “Austere Islamic Scholar” obituary for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi seem very quaint indeed.

But I read the whole thing so you don’t have to. The key takeaways:

1. The USA is the Great Satan—no scare quotes.

2. For readers who don’t know what “Israel” is, the Economist helpfully translates it in parentheses as “the little Satan.”

3. Khamenei, otherwise known as “God’s Dictator,” had “divine right on his side” and had “countless reasons to hate the West,” which is an America-led “phalanx of morally corrupt countries.”

4. Khamenei was a sainted and humble man, dragged to power against his will, selfless and “heroically flexible” and unassailable—a “humble cleric from Mashhad who inherited the earth.”

5. Honourable in life, but perfect in death: what could be sweeter than delicious martyrdom? What could be “more deserving of paradise-to-come than to drink the pure draught of a martyr’s end”?!

6. According to the Economist, “Freedom, human rights, dress codes for women” are “tiresome Western tropes.” Yes, really.

7. All his troubles were economic: he was tormented by the West and by foreign enemies. All the crimes he ordered—beatings, killings, and so on—were, naturally, merely “a response” to those Western crimes.

8. He “rules by divine authority,” and “his tongue could channel God.”

9. He was just a ”mild-mannered cleric” gazed benignly from billboards and was a great teacher of forgiveness”.

We have now surely reached the apogee of the decay of the legacy media in the West. Surely it can't sink lower than this?

[Dan Carr @danmcarr]

I wouldn't know where to start with a parody of the pov in the screenshot. The dial has already been turned up to 10 on the absurd stakes, so where do you go from there?

[Kelden Formosa @KeldenFormosa]

Part of my job as a teacher in the last few years has been as a learning support specialist, focussed on helping students who are struggling with skills and content in the intermediate and middle school grades.

It's hard to calculate the damage done to kids' lives and learning by education professors like this one, who have spent years discouraging teachers from teaching, leaving thousands of kids drowning in more difficult material for which they were never prepared.

Private tutoring options like Kumon, Oxford Learning, etc., are absolutely booming across Canada, and it's because too many of our publicly funded schools have adopted the kind of thinking on display here. But parents should not have to pay extra to have their kids learn their times tables--that is the job of the education system we all pay for.

Kudos to @rastokke and her team for drawing attention to this nonsense, which we need to get out of our schools yesterday, and for proposing solutions that actually work.

[Dan Carr @danmcarr]

@JJEnglert Guide

[Dan Carr @danmcarr]

@heeney_luke @benleo_econ I get the feeling. My 1st class econ hons a product of Monash (at least then) rounding up to nearest whole number when determining what class your % average puts you in. Spent days thinking I was 0.75pp below the cutoff before finding this out. V imp in getting my 1st econ job!

[Dan Carr @danmcarr]

Well said.

[Paul Johnson @PJTheEconomist]

WASPI women never had a case. Language of outrage around decision devalues where real outrage appropriate.

MPs in opposition or on backbenches have been cynical in offering support for billions of compensation that was never going to be paid.

https://t.co/5JTBlPFXyR

[Dan Carr @danmcarr]

@themetresgained @disco___cat the way ABC spin this is hardly surprising - see any and all of their financial scam coverage. Inevitably - no matter how greedy and cavalier the behaviour of the individual - ends with a call for gov to force banks to do more (ignoring entirely the friction this would cause)

[Dan Carr @danmcarr]

@themetresgained The tweet quoted reminds me of this gem: https://t.co/PDspPYo7TM

[Peter Hull @instrumenthull]

Teaching undergrads Stata today

[Dan Carr @danmcarr]

@PaulKohlerSW19 Congratulations Paul!

[Dan Carr @danmcarr]

@owletbabycare - how on earth is this not fixed yet? It's been over a week now. Do you have a timeline for getting it fixed or should I just bin my owlet cam and get another brand's cam?

[Dan Carr @danmcarr]

Some fantastic research from @E61Institute on teacher recruitment and retention out today. First time (to my knowledge) anyone has used administrative data to answer key questions about the teacher workforce nationally.

[e61 Institute @E61Institute]

🚨🚨🚨Today @SilviaGriseld and Jack Buckley release new research on the state of teacher workforce, with a particular focus on attrition.

🌟The main message? 🌟Teacher attrition isn’t rising — in fact, it’s now the lowest of any occupation in Australia. But challenges remain. [1/n]

Here to read the report and a summary below
https://t.co/JQCsDuO48b

[Charlotte Peverett (she/her) 💉💉🦠 💉💉🦠💉 @lifeoflottie]

Calling all teachers in Australian schools.

Do you work in an Australian school?
Are you teaching any students with intellectual disabilities?

If so, please consider completing our survey.

https://t.co/NntU1bwxoC

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[Dan Carr @danmcarr]

@ryanbedwards @Josh_Merfeld We are following in the UK's lead perhaps (shakes fist at the bundle of cash I still have sitting there in a super account I can't access without punitively high tax rates applying)

[Dan Carr @danmcarr]

Fascinating read. I agree with it all but unfortunately can't see much of a chance of this shift happening while so many political parties take economic growth as a given (or even see it as a thing to be wary of).

[Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano]

Slides for my keynote speech at the Florence EUI conference "Future of Regulation and Competitiveness in Europe – Making the Draghi Report Actionable". Some stuff familiar to SiliconContinent readers, with new diagnosis and proposals.
More to come soon!
https://t.co/buWTG81lbH

[Dan Carr @danmcarr]

@themetresgained @thedispatch Oh I don't think I've read that - will check out!