What does "smart" mean anyway?| fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com
It was a rare treat to see back-to-back great good education sense from a Marxist and a neoliberal. I subscribe to Freddie DeBoer, and a friend gifted me a subscription to Matt Yglesias (not as Ed)…| educationrealist
student ability is remarkably static and predictable from pre-K to college and beyond, and this means that our social contract is broken| freddiedeboer.substack.com
My recent post on education and optimism bias received a lot of attention, mostly positive. It occurred to me that, as I’ve written so much on this topic, it may be hard for new readers to get caught up. So here I’m laying out my gloss on the overall state of American education research, policy, and discourse, and pointing you in the direction of evidence for these ideas. This is more of a series of various observations than a conventional argument. The most thorough exploration of my tho...| freddiedeboer.substack.com
