Bill⚽️Dailey

🚨 63% of Americans support adopting a national popular vote for President.

When she begged me to let her be homeschooled for high school I refused. I was worried she’d hide out in her bedroom all day and get weird. I had been a public school teacher and advocate. I wasn’t a homeschool parent. After watching yet another blood-boiling, unproductive virtual school board meeting in February 2021, I agreed to let her try it. I was nervous. I didn’t know it then, but she had already reached out to a neighbor (via snail mail) about helping out with her horses and had big plans for the future. My daughter graduated almost a year early from high school, had lots of time to earn money to pay for a car and dog, and plenty of opportunities learn more about her hobby. Today, she’s the proud owner of these guys with quite a following on TikTok (over 50k) where she shares the day-to-day routine of caring for animals. I’m not saying homeschooling is for everyone, but I encourage parents not to be too quick to dismiss the opportunities that it might open up for their children that the traditional path may not.

If (and this is a big if) we grant that teachers are underpaid, setting a minimum salary seems like entirely the wrong incentive structure What about the 30-year, accomplished veteran? Upscale the top end of the income spectrum and reward experience and excellence

I’m not sure people fully realize the looming catastrophe of a world in which students at elite universities are struggling to read even a single book. Mass literacy quite literally built the modern world. Without it, our entire civilizational project will unravel, rapidly.

79% of grades at Yale are A-range. Graduating summa cum laude requires a record high GPA OF 3.98.

A student today at my elite university admitted to me today that she took a class so she could work on reading for more than 20 minutes at a time. She can't read. She mainly skims and summarizes, she says and still gets A's. This student is, by professional standards, illiterate. Gonna have high GPA when she graduates. This conversation was had after 6 of 22 students dropped my course because the maximum reading per week in one week was over 100 pages. What people aren't grasping is that this is literally *dangerous*. These people are going to be come doctors, engineers, etc. They are - by any metric - vastly less capable than prior generations. These effects are cumulative over a lifetime. This grade inflation is part of the problem, but not even close to the entirety. And the problem obviously starts in K-12. Students don't know history because, you can't actually become historically literate on the advice of 'never assign more than 30 pages a week'. You can't develop any of the skills that came with literacy. This is, quite honestly, a civilizational catastrophe.

"Here’s what our schooling looked like when our students scored higher in literacy. Whatever the teacher is saying is a matter of rapt attention by the children" AMAZING

Landon Donovan has been vocal about his passion for wanting to see change in Youth Soccer. I asked if he would be interested in a leadership position in U.S Soccer - he said he wouldn’t rule it out. He wants to see change culturally around the development of players

omg.. the animations on the firsts iphone were really insane.. i forgot that

Education research the least likely to replicate according to a huge new paper published by Nature