Erik Loomis wrote about the Diane Ravitch v. Michelle Rhee stuff. I don’t care about the majority of the content of this conflict. More arts funding? Ok I guess. I don’t know. I didn’t particularly like arts classes. I liked gym class. How about more of that? I don’t know: leave it to some pedagogy experts or something to figure out.| Matt Bruenig Dot Com
As regular readers know by now, I am fairly skeptical of the Education Reform Movement. I am not convinced that the reforms advocated by this well-funded movement will actually work because I suspect that the real problem is economic inequality, not bad schools or bad teachers. But even if one believed that the policies pushed by the reformers would be successful, a question then arises: successful at what?| Matt Bruenig Dot Com
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Why do Americans have such trouble with fractions—and what can be done?| Scientific American
it's still a great field, but "learn to code" has created headwinds| freddiedeboer.substack.com
a comprehensive argument that education cannot close academic gaps| freddiedeboer.substack.com