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Corrupting the youth. Exploring the future of learning. Follow for ideas on how to improve your child’s education.
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When kids leave traditional school, they have to go through a deschooling process. Deschooling = unlearning all the bad habits you picked up in school. Some of the biggest habits kids need to unlearn:
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1 in 8 freshmen at UC San Diego has to take remedial math UC San Diego is supposed to be one of the best public universities in the country That means it has *competitive admissions standards* Which means even its high-level applicants aren’t ready for college math Yikes
NEW: UC San Diego has released a new report documenting a “steep decline in the academic preparedness” of its freshmen. The number of entering students needing remedial math has exploded from 1/100 to 1/8. They’ve had to create a second remedial class covering elementary and
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Horrible status quo bias at work re: length of education. We have learned, marketing Alpha Schools, that critics tend to equate learning *efficiency* with "rushing" or being "shallow." Unfortunately here they will also get accused of "putting patient lives in danger"
One way to get young people to "adult" faster is shorten educational timelines, so people start careers faster. Zeke Emanuel, Emily Kim, and Vitor de Souza — Make Medical School Three Years https://t.co/yThNeIZAPW
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“Send your kids to public school,” they said “It’ll be fine,” they said
The report focuses on the decline of math skills in particular. They recently tested a group of their students. Here are the percentages of students who correctly answered questions at each grade level:
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Nothing special : 🚨just a NASDAQ-listed company with nearly 1,000 % upside potential after reporting 100 % detection of one of the deadliest cancers known to humankind. A technology that could help save over 500,000 lives each year — and it’s happening as Florida moves to ban
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“Artsy kids hate math” isn’t real, it’s a public school psyop
My free-spirited, artsy 7yo is doing problems like 346+52 in her head this morning and laughing at IXL for being too easy. If this girl were in traditional school I guarantee you she would be the type who "hates math".
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Childhood is precious. Don’t waste it on boring drill-and-kill test prep, fluorescent classrooms, mass-market nonsense, peer pressure and tray lunches. It’s a time of unfettered creativity, curiosity, exploration, passion, play, and is to be defended.
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Reminder that 54% of American adults can't read above a 6th grade level.
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This is a great metaphor
One of the things our data keeps leading me back to: Math Academy is the digital, cognitive equivalent of a physical gym. The acquisition/retention characteristics are so similar. In fact YouTube thought I was a gym owner for a while bc I read so many gym management articles. I
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> teaching is hard work > most teachers are good people > the system is stacked against them > the incentives are all off > their hands are mostly tied > lots of what happens in the classroom is detrimental to kids > this is not the teachers’ fault
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Parents: good ratings, awards, etc are not what you should be looking for when vetting a school Meaningless distractions Ask about books being read, time spent in recess, homework load, attitude toward student needs, openness to customization — the stuff that actually affects
I just toured one of the best public schools in Arizona, according to state rankings and other accolades (e.g. Blue Ribbon School, US News, etc.). I asked the principal what books my kid will have read by the time she finishes elementary school. She couldn't name a single
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Kids want to do useful things Let them
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Joe Feldman: “Why do we still hear claims that equitable grading lowers standards, demotivates students, or even undermines public schools?” San Francisco:
Actually we don’t, because there’s no upside. Grading reform has solved zero real problems, while creating many new problems.
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Also this: https://t.co/Cj8ewYJmB4
My now-6yo son, J.D., started at a new school this fall. Soon the teacher pulled my husband aside, he thought J.D. was in trouble... She was actually just taken aback by how well J.D. could read and wanted to know if we had any previous test scores. We had put him on @MentavaInc
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Gifted kindergarteners are real and they need gifted support right from the top
People trying to say that there’s no such thing as a gifted kindergartener Meanwhile we’re just over here quietly teaching 2yos to read like 2nd graders
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In public school, kids don’t learn to read at all With Mentava they blow through whole school years in months It’s not a kid/capacity problem, it’s an adult/instruction problem
“Isaac’s progress has blown me away - he started in July not knowing letter sounds at all😳😳” - his mom Isaac finished our kindergarten reading curriculum in 3 months. The best part of my job is showing parents what their kids are capable of Because without Mentava, who would
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The children yearn to do things themselves Let them
A child “would rather dress himself than be dressed, even magnificently. He prefers washing himself to the pleasant feeling of being clean. He would rather build a house than own one. He is thus disposed because he must first form his own life before he can enjoy it.” Montessori
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The big argument against the NYC gifted programs is that they're too segregated "Too many white/Asian/affluent kids, too few black/Hispanic/poor kids" Never mind that cutting gifted programs will *increase* segregation Obviously, families with means will send their smart kids
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Expensive school =/= good school
in California, too, I've heard a weird number of stories of parents assuming that the high price tag and good reputation meant a private school would offer rigorous academic instruction and then it....didn't.
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