Marc Porter Magee 🎓
@marcportermagee
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I live in Virginia with @kportermagee, our 3 adorable kids & 3 scruffy dogs. Personal account. Work: CEO & founder of @FiftyCAN. Project: @AdvocacyLabs.
Joined March 2009
Hot take: we should be able to teach almost every child to read proficiently by 4th grade, regardless of income, race or parents’ education Instead this is where we are:
By popular request (@karenvaites), here is the 2024 NAEP 4th grade reading proficiency rates for economically disadvantaged students across all states
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Hillary Clinton still goes by "Secretary" despite quitting her appointed job in 2013
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"Senator Nina Turner" she was a *state* senator for 2 years more than a decade ago
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Honorifics *are* stupid and it's very weird Americans use so many of them
Yes honorifics are silly and pretentious and hierarchical. But if you’re making the argument that PhDs don’t get them but medical doctors and judges and politicians do then you aren’t opposed to honorifics you just hate academics.
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What should we make of the fact that top HBCUs don’t do well (at all) on this ROI rating?
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Dartmouth: we skew our admissions towards the rich Harvard: we skew our admissions towards the rich and the poor MIT: you guys skew your admissions?
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I’m so glad we are going back to Europa with the Europa Clipper mission. Can’t wait for the new photos! (in April 2030)
This view of Europa's chaotic surface, captured by Galileo on November 25, 1999 (color added), is intriguing to me because of the low illumination phase angle with light coming from the lower right. It highlights the texture on the ridges via long shadows cast toward the top.
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The NYT has a cool tool that lets you look at the odds of a student getting into a college equalized for test scores
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The very rich benefit from college admissions systems weighted towards subjective ratings Among students with the same test scores they get much better recommendations
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“Add to all of this the suspicion that reason is a form of domination that replaced more honest struggles for power, and you have a worldview that is not far from one held by the worst reactionaries.”
"I am not arguing, as is commonly suggested, that wokeness was on the right track but went too far. Rather, by unwittingly accepting deeply regressive philosophical assumptions, it went in the wrong direction entirely." Really worth reckoning with Susan Neiman's latest in
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Critics rip Geiser for cherry-picking stats and ignoring basic psychometrics. Real experts say his analysis has serious errors and omits key evidence—but UC uses it to justify bad policy. Total junk science. https://t.co/Ts0JnDdnk0
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Increasing years of formal schooling has not resulted in a corresponding increase in years of learning
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