The 5I of education that must drive Education Policy https://t.co/SfOwnCiDh0 (Thank you for continuous support to this seminal article) Now that India's New Education Policy has begun its journey, noting that as a win. This, a reminder of essential driving principles.

Many Indians who travel internationally are first-generation global travelers. They have not been socialised from childhood into the unspoken rules of European public life. Contrast that with Indians who grew up in global cities or studied abroad early. Their behaviour abroad is

Samose ka kona stan Nothing more delicious

Fascinating paper just published in Science. The authors analyze the career trajectories of top performers across multiple domains, including Nobel laureates, elite chess players, Olympic gold medalists, and more. Their central finding challenges a common belief. Intensive,

A teacher's teaching quality has very little impact on school achievement (less than 10%). The remaining 90% is due to characteristics associated with students.

Had a friend tell me once: "When you're feeling overwhelmed, there are only two things you should do––get organized and get to work. The rest is just noise. Peace is found in progress." Some of the best advice I've ever received.

Here's an underrated theory paper on college admissions. When the stakes get high, we end up selecting too many people who are good at gaming the system, and too few who are actually good.

This bodes ill. Readers used to outnumber non-readers 2 to 1. Now non-readers outnumber readers 3 to 1. It's hard to imagine a change of that magnitude not having significant effects.

When someone cites your work but gets it completely wrong

📢📢 I have a new paper in which I argue that the question “Can we make algorithms fair?” is a category error: https://t.co/fMDJUo2u6Q A few years ago I became disillusioned with algorithmic fairness research and stopped working in the area. So when I was invited to contribute

Decades of data show a clear pattern: The more schools digitize, the worse students perform.

Forty-three percent of children in Scotland are now identified as having some sort of additional learning need – the Scottish term for what is called special educational needs (SEN) in England. If 43% of children have needs which are not met in the mainstream education system, I

As a parent, I think this video has taught me something useful. I recommend that you should try it on your kids, too. I have also shared it with my wife. Credit: joe_drummer_boy on IG.

Did you know that at least 70% of the Finnish academy are on short term precarious contracts? And folks have to keep applying for research projects to secure themselves and generate employment for ECRs? We’re all going to get there thanks to complacency as much as neoliberalism.

Here we go round the mulberry bush… (It really is going to take a lot)

Like time zones, there are also end of year/new year zones. Living in the west, the new year reboot happens in Dec Jan. In India, its around Oct Nov coz of Diwali (though other new years also exist). China presumably around Jan Feb. New Year is a state of mind, switching tough

Everyone is writing a book…replaced by….everyone is launching a brand…in India.

“Why is the birth rate so low?” I dunno, maybe women would like to fly in a plane without being expected to make 200 fucking goodie bags for fucking adults just so they don’t openly bitch about her infant’s very existence.

The one skill we have developed in this decade is to shop online with a properly serious office face!

He’s not wrong… (And I think I know why…)

In awe of the work done by the @AasraaTrust Each classroom, each shelter home, skills centre bore the mark of care and expertise An incredible day!!