sprout & co.

making science a cultural activity

[Alec Resnick @aresnick]

"a system of education that routinely & at scale gets its students to high levels of educational achievement"

[sprout & co. @sprouts]

@FAYERAUW probably wrong account! We’re http://t.co/fIKCmjMwqq

[sprout & co. @sprouts]

Wow, the number of students per overall staff member in US schools has been cut in half since 1950: http://t.co/1QpYDeAJ5M

[sprout & co. @sprouts]

"So from ages 1-15, child poverty rates fall a whopping 30% […] bc of income life-cycles" http://t.co/XmYO1DHhXI

[sprout & co. @sprouts]

"The real problem is that research on expertise focuses […] where “expertise” is a […] objectively codified notion." http://t.co/3cqRoyfcVp

[Venkatesh Rao ☀️ @vgr]

America's Got Talent has good acts. Show idea: America's Got Basic Income to see what people can do with free money in a year.

[sprout & co. @sprouts]

Man, Papert's soap-sculpture analogy is SO good: http://t.co/ckyNgRuPW4

[sprout & co. @sprouts]

"The first thing you might see is that the overall youth unemployment rate hasn't budged from its historical average" http://t.co/phrrz5reE9

[sprout & co. @sprouts]

Previous chart from US DoE's Office for Civil Rights Data Snapshot on School Discipine http://t.co/6C3GTj4y41

[sprout & co. @sprouts]

What would a Hippocratic Oath suggest we do with this, given what's known about suspension's effect on outcomes?

[sprout & co. @sprouts]

Depressing implications w/r/t school's technological immune system: @mm: Where is your God now, Moore? http://t.co/XWsf0dvCiW

[sprout & co. @sprouts]

haha "3 main points that Gerson says the Common Core [is] looking for" http://t.co/Toa0xNlj30 apparently 1) hard, 2) good, and 3) relatable

[sprout & co. @sprouts]

haha "CEO … argues rotational models can work for any classroom and any subject. ('Just do it!')" https://t.co/IU1gP6kvtq #nuance

[sprout & co. @sprouts]

"Skills, education, & the rise of earnings inequality among the 'other 99%'" http://t.co/NBWC6qgER1 Ctrl+F "race" or Ctrl+F "class" => nil

[Alec Resnick @aresnick]

Next time someone declares "peak X," consider the possibility its simply becoming part of the fabric of daily life.

[sprout & co. @sprouts]

"The same confidence I’d shown […] was viewed by Ms. Reisman as arrogance, as immodesty, and she bristled at it." http://t.co/hejPxliJJT

[Alec Resnick @aresnick]

I tried to answer some questions for @AnthonySalcito about education over at http://t.co/p3wKONSYYR

[sprout & co. @sprouts]

"What’s surprising to me about the higher education & inequality stuff is just how weak the arguments actually are" http://t.co/ZT45O1qFxc