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You know school is holding back your child, but you don’t know how much. @gtschool
Katılım Mart 2025
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Alpha principal here—I fully believe in selection effects.
Schools should be designed to select the students they’re best equipped to serve. Our sports academy selects for students who love sports, while gt (gifted and talented) school selects for students who love academics for academics’ sake.
Good educational product design REQUIRES selection effects.
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Rebecca Winthrop, whom Ezra Klein interviewed here, is going to be talking to MacKenzie Price, founder of Alpha. Next week, live (virtual).
Discussion is: disaffection from education and its solutions.
gt.dad@gtdad
Oh boy. Just gonna livetweet my reactions as I read this.
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I’m on a panel tonight, with @Austen, on AI and education at the Capital Factory in Austin. Come!
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We've enrolled Riva as a student at the Montessorium. We toured several schools and this was the school she liked best. Excited to see how Riva grows, and how the school grows.
Matt Bateman@mbateman
Announcing a new kind of Montessori program. Short version: Montessori elementary, with 2 Hour Learning (viz. Alpha) platform on the shelf as a material. Pilot this fall in Austin. Guide is the fantastic @annamorgsmiley. @drlauramazer and I leading development. Long version:
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🚨Please stay tuned for this important announcement from my baby🚨
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Really good essay from Dan Willingham that is nominally about the science of reading but is actually about the wider issue of how to conceptualize education research.
Daniel Willingham@DTWillingham
New substack: What is the science of reading? And why the definition matters.... dtwuva.substack.com/p/what-is-the-…
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@averykimball Oh you’re agreeing with me
For some reason I read this as a scathing critique
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@gtdad ‘people naturally know how to be how we think-peaceful, non-exploitative, cooperative’
noble savage shit: the only important knowledge; engineering is just trivia
get out of the way of nature
vs
we *do* start out as blank-slates (ignorant)
the information is not instantiated
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who else low-key suspects the left has long-abandoned 'growth-mindset', and have fully embraced a genetic model of human ability
that is absolutely flat
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Ensuring children have mastery of prior material before moving on to more advanced material is the bedrock of quality education. It’s both braindead obvious and consistently validated by learning science. If we get rid of STAAR, we get rid of mastery.
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@averykimball What is the purported philosophical dogma here, and what’s the alternative
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@averykimball Seems orthogonal? If you really studied in beginning Greek you’ll do better in intermediate Greek. If no one checks it or cares you’ll have a lot of people in intermediate who struggle.
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hm
when she was a toddler I would often let my daughter mildly startle herself or get hurt a little so that she could learn about what would happen if she messed with something unwisely + stop doing it
this usually worked
son, however, wants to run multiple trials
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Ensuring children have mastery of prior material before moving on to more advanced material is the bedrock of quality education. It’s both braindead obvious and consistently validated by learning science.
If we get rid of STAAR, we get rid of mastery.
Greg Abbott@GregAbbott_TX
During the Special Session beginning Monday, Legislators have the opportunity to END the STAAR test in public schools. Do it.
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@pli_cachete 15 years ago cranks would just mail spam their deranged books to academic departments. With exactly this sort of preamble/forward.
Internet has made them a bit more diverse in form but it’s the same look
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@pli_cachete My preferred term for this kind of person is “crank”.
I’m not sure based on this that models are making him worse. This really is exactly the kind of thing that you from cranks without models.
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@gtdad I think the problem I’ve had with some subjects is I can think through the basic material well enough without a lot of drilling and then when it gets more advanced I haven’t made the basic material automatic, I still need to think through it and can’t build on it easily
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@Edwina614152118 I seriously doubt the argument for ending it is that it is too easy
I would support much harder tests
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Why is this good?
STAAR is a grade level assessment pegged to Texas state curriculum standards.
Do Texas state standards not matter to Texas? Is the STAAR being replaced by something that better checks those standards? Rather strange.
Our students literally ace these tests btw
Greg Abbott@GregAbbott_TX
During the Special Session beginning Monday, Legislators have the opportunity to END the STAAR test in public schools. Do it.
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