Education Doesn't Work - Freddie deBoer
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student ability is remarkably static and predictable from pre-K to college and beyond, and this means that our social contract is broken
Note: this post has been superceded by a new and improved version. Please see that version for my definitive take. This post well exceeds Gmail’s size limit, so please click the “view entire message” link if you’re in Gmail or go here and find the post. I’ll give you a couple days to let this one marinate. I will be participating in a virtual sociogenomics forum hosted by the University of Bristol on April 26th and will share the video when I have a link. There’s this guy Jay Joseph. He doesn’t like me, but to my annoyance I like him. He’s been waging a one-man war against the field of…
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