sprout & co.

"a system of education that routinely & at scale gets its students to high levels of educational achievement"

@FAYERAUW probably wrong account! We’re thesprouts.org

Wow, the number of students per overall staff member in US schools has been cut in half since 1950: nces.ed.gov/programs/diges…

"So from ages 1-15, child poverty rates fall a whopping 30% […] bc of income life-cycles" demos.org/blog/6/10/14/e…

"The real problem is that research on expertise focuses […] where “expertise” is a […] objectively codified notion." ribbonfarm.com/2014/06/11/the…

Man, Papert's soap-sculpture analogy is SO good: pages.citebite.com/w3c3m5f2a7arb

"The first thing you might see is that the overall youth unemployment rate hasn't budged from its historical average" theatlantic.com/business/archi…

Previous chart from US DoE's Office for Civil Rights Data Snapshot on School Discipine cl.ly/3f3f3l3j2Z1d

What would a Hippocratic Oath suggest we do with this, given what's known about suspension's effect on outcomes?

Depressing implications w/r/t school's technological immune system: @mm: Where is your God now, Moore? pic.twitter.com/XWsf0dvCiW

haha "3 main points that Gerson says the Common Core [is] looking for" npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/… apparently 1) hard, 2) good, and 3) relatable

haha "CEO … argues rotational models can work for any classroom and any subject. ('Just do it!')" edsurge.com/n/2014-06-03-o… #nuance

"Skills, education, & the rise of earnings inequality among the 'other 99%'" cl.ly/3k0Q312j0q0E Ctrl+F "race" or Ctrl+F "class" => nil

Next time someone declares "peak X," consider the possibility its simply becoming part of the fabric of daily life.

"The same confidence I’d shown […] was viewed by Ms. Reisman as arrogance, as immodesty, and she bristled at it." blackgirldangerous.org/2014/06/white-…

I tried to answer some questions for @AnthonySalcito about education over at dailyedventures.com/index.php/2014…

"What’s surprising to me about the higher education & inequality stuff is just how weak the arguments actually are" mattbruenig.com/2014/06/02/hig…