EdReal

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EdReal

EdReal

@Ed_Realist

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Katılım Haziran 2012
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Sean Gailmard@SeanGailmard·
The way this lands for me is that viewpoint diversity is a means to an end. It produces stronger pushback on weak ideas as they gestate. A byproduct of this will be less scholar-activism, which proliferates despite shaky foundations because of ideological homogeneity.
Itai Sher@itaisher

I don’t think the lack of viewpoint diversity is the central issue plaguing academia. I think it’s the sense of entitlement to do politics at work instead of focusing on what should be the core mission: research and teaching. It’s that entitlement that has gotten us in trouble.

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Alec MacGillis
Alec MacGillis@AlecMacGillis·
You know what would help forestall the End of Reading? For great cover stories not to appear online 12 days before they land in the mailboxes of print subscribers who are paying far higher rates to help keep ambitious journalism going.
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Michael Pauleen
Michael Pauleen@MichaelPauleen·
in 1998, 31% of kindergarten teachers thought kids should learn to read in kindergarten. by 2010 it was 80%. the five year olds did not change
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EdReal@Ed_Realist·
@chacaranda I like timeshare better. Upped my purchases recently because I realized that timeshares > airbnb or vrbo. I don't like hotels, period.
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Eddie
Eddie@chacaranda·
I’ve found that there are only 2 use cases where Airbnb is a value add now: 1) unique stays (cabin, weird house, historic, quirky, etc.) 2) Large groups Anything else I’m going hotel 9/10 times
Mr. Illinois@mr1llinois

Weighing in on airbnb discourse. Used to be awesome. Remember spending ~$40 to sleep in some old person's spare bedroom in their beautiful old foursquare. Getting local tips, meeting other travelers. Haven't seen that in so long. Now I prefer a hotel 9/10 times.

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EdReal@Ed_Realist·
@cjscalia I loved this movie up until the ending, which went on a bit too long. But otherwise perfect.
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EdReal
EdReal@Ed_Realist·
No, I think that we have a sequence of classes that we mandate in math, while in English we just go through the motions. Moreover, for 60 years at least, it's clear that getting to the top percentile in math requires much more content knowledge and vocabulary ability than getting to a top percentile in verbal, as has been shown for years by tests that actually assess such ability (which the current SAT and ACT do not).
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Crémieux
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil·
It is an interesting point that schools have focused almost exclusively on verbal and mathematical skills when spatial skills are also important in the real world. What would an education system that prioritizes spatial ability even look like?
Riot IQ Test@RiotIQ

Spatial skills are important for success in many careers. And yet, they are rarely part of the K-12 curriculum. In a new article, @JonathanLWai argues that including spatial skills on accountability tests will encourage better STEM and vocational education, identify students with overlooked talents, and help build a pipeline for future innovators. Sounds great! So why hasn't it happened yet? According to Wai, "The largest barrier to implementation of spatial assessments in large scale assessments at the national and international levels are that the focus of schools has largely been on math and verbal skills and the tests continue to reflect primarily those domains. This does not preclude the eventual inclusion and potential widespread acceptance and inclusion of established spatial skills measures, but it remains a challenge" (p. 8). Read more in this open access article: doi.org/10.1007/s44217…

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EdReal@Ed_Realist·
Schools are judged on how many students we get through calculus and are "flunked" if they don't get a significant percentage through at least Algebra 2. "English" classes don't teach vocabulary. They don't teach writing. They don't teach grammar. They offer books that kids don't have to read and assign essays that have to fit a particular format and aren't assessed on insight or ability. They can ignore the books, write badly, and still pass. We are *far* less rigorous in our approach to the verbal skills in high school than we are math. It's not even close. Of course math contains a spatial element. I agree that reasoning ability is essential, and if you have that you can compensate for weaker spatial abilities, while the reverse isn't true. But it's just incorrect to say math is not a spatial skill at all, or that we aren't prioritizing spatial ability. Smart people with strong spatial abilities are getting all the spatial prioritization they need.
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Crémieux
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil·
@Ed_Realist Reading and writing are verbal skills. The SAT has a verbal subtest. English classes are about verbal skills. I have no idea what universe you live in where these things aren't the case. And no, math is not spatial skill. Net of g, there's not even a subtest correlation.
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Pincher Martin
Pincher Martin@PincherMartin8·
@Ed_Realist Oh, my comment was focused on the settlement of the Eastern seaboard, which is what the original poster was talking about.
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Pincher Martin
Pincher Martin@PincherMartin8·
Also, unlike Brazil, where the mountains start right at the coast, most of the coastal plain in the eastern U.S. rises gradually until it finally hits the Appalachians. That geographic feature allowed the U.S. to expand, certainly far more than Brazil could, but not so much that communities couldn't be built.
J.M. Goodwin@jmgwritten

For the geographically challenged:

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EdReal
EdReal@Ed_Realist·
@ycinnewyork @HamiltonCain @RossBarkan Because they don't want their kids obedience corrupted with black and Hispanic and white kids. And thry convert the schools into an environment that Americans find unnattractive.
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Yiatin Chu
Yiatin Chu@ycinnewyork·
Liu's state senate district is 60% Asian. While he takes progressive stances on many issues, he knows he can't completely diss the people he's supposed to represent. While D16 is mostly East Asian, there's a growing South Asian community as well --- both support keeping the test.
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Yiatin Chu
Yiatin Chu@ycinnewyork·
Just read two SHSAT pieces on Substack that got me to upgrade to paid subscriptions (again). One from NYC native @RossBarkan who rather SHS don't exist at all. "If I had my druthers, they wouldn’t even exist." But he gets the political tussle and why "Asians are at the very heart of this debate ...". The second is from @KelseyTuoc, a CA journalist who I learned is connected to NYC's Specialized High Schools from her grandmother, who attended Bronx Science. She makes the RIGHT case that the work needs to start before 8th grade. "... we need to avoid blaming those failures on the tests that expose them." Read both of them. Smart takes from political liberals on the SHSAT and why @NYCMayor @DOEChancellor should protect these schools.
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EdReal@Ed_Realist·
@ycinnewyork @RossBarkan Ross Barkan is wrong, and Kelsey Tuoc hasn't had an original thought in her life. Apparently the NYC schools only fail black and Hispanic kids.
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EdReal
EdReal@Ed_Realist·
@PincherMartin8 I was not talking about the Eastern seaboard. Just states.
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Pincher Martin
Pincher Martin@PincherMartin8·
@Ed_Realist It's not true across the entire Eastern seaboard, but it's mostly true. 85% true.
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EdReal
EdReal@Ed_Realist·
@MoreOrLessAMess (she's got six or seven kids and homeschools, so she's kind of confusing her circumstances with, you know, reality.)
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Colby Lyons
Colby Lyons@ImColbyLyons·
@JAustinEDU @teachbk Personally I disagree with that person's stance on this, but I think it would be a mistake to disregard the thoughts of people outside of the school system on education just because they aren't school teachers.
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EdReal
EdReal@Ed_Realist·
@EdWatcherNYC @ycinnewyork Once a school hits a certain percentage of Asians, there's American flight (which is mostly reflected in the drop in white applications).
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NYC-Education-Watcher
NYC-Education-Watcher@EdWatcherNYC·
@ycinnewyork Also, since you bring up Townsend Harris, there is no entrance exam and my understanding is that it too is overwhelmingly Asian.
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Yiatin Chu
Yiatin Chu@ycinnewyork·
Haimson sees Asians as “white adjacent”, not POC. In NYC’s Specialized High Schools, Asian students are majority low income and most from immigrant households. Former Mayor De Blasio commissioned a study *hoping* to discredit the SHSAT, but results show the test is predictive of academic performance. “But on Friday, the city’s Education Department released for the first time a study it had commissioned in 2013 that showed a strong positive relationship between doing well on the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test and high school academic performance.” Many academic screened and audition schools that use multiple factors yield extreme gender bias. Townsend Harris and LaGuardia HS had/has >70% girls yet crickets from Haimson. nytimes.com/2018/08/03/nyr…
Ross Barkan@RossBarkan

@leoniehaimson Also, aren't Asians "students of color"? That's what so dumb about this debate. Every SHSAT school is probably 60-70% students of color, maybe more honestly.

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EdReal@Ed_Realist·
Oh, bullshit. Somehow the same teachers manage to prepare the Asians and whites. Whites, blacks, and Hispanics with abilities to go to the specialized high schools don't want to go. They don't like the schools. Inside NYC, specialized high schools aren't as highly regarded as outside.
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NYC-Education-Watcher
NYC-Education-Watcher@EdWatcherNYC·
It’s not just that. Truly understanding the numbers means pointing out the failures of NYC DOE preparing many black and brown students. But she won’t cop to that because it would lead to a discussion about the role the union has played in all this over the past 50 years, and she won’t ever go against the UFT which is a big supporter of her one-woman vanity organization.
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