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Teaching practical skills isn't just about handiness—it's about building better thinkers and students.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
Teaching practical skills isn't just about handiness—it's about building better thinkers and students.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
As we build The School of Entrepeneuring, we've realized that the fundamental challenge in education today isn't about content or delivery — it's about the problems we ask students to solve. These problems aren't just dull — they're dangerously irrelevant. The result is that we're boring kids to death and honing obsolete skills while the| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
The reality is that grades have served their purpose and it's time to move on if we want actual learning.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
"I believe the children are our future" - Anand Sanwal via Whitney Houston| My non-sucky newsletter
"Equity language" has done nothing to improve education. It is a sophisticated way to derail meaningful conversation.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
Grade inflation is the worst, most cancerous type of inflation in the USA right now.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
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By high school, 2/3 of students are disengaged in school - a mass exodus of minds. And we're not doing shit about it.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
Like ghost kitchens that exist only on delivery apps, these nonprofits exist only on college applications.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
Schools should NOT exist to train children to be compliant and conforming employees and consumers. Education should help develop students into independent-thinking explorers, leaders and problem-solvers.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
This essay first appeared in my newsletter. Sign up here if interested in F'ing up the status quo and fixing education. In the grand theater of American higher education, few performances are as anticipated—or as controversial—as the annual unveiling of the U.S. News & World Report college rankings. Like a high-stakes beauty pageant for academia,| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
This essay first appeared in my newsletter. Sign up here if interested in F’ing up the status quo and fixing education. Here's a thought that might change how you view the American education system: Most of what passes for educational progress is actually a sophisticated form of distraction. The ancient Romans had a term for this: "bread| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
"Take one step at a time," they said, "and eventually, you'll reach the top, where all your dreams come true." The children grew up learning to climb. They were taught to climb as quickly as possible.| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
Imagine a school where the number of books checked out from the library is used to judge the school’s literacy efforts. Absurd, right? Yet this mirrors the reality in many American government schools today (note: my focus is on public, government-funded middle and high schools). A conversation with a brilliant public school teacher recently illuminated| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
This essay first appeared in my newsletter. Sign up here if interested in F'ing up the status quo and fixing education. Here's a puzzle: how do you create a trillion-dollar debt bubble that can't be popped? Answer: make student loans non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. Now, here's a trickier one: how do you fix this mess when| Anand Sanwal » Trying to mess things up
