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In K-12 education, it’s nearly impossible to scale metrics of teacher efficacy without very short term measurement of student performance on standardized tests that don’t map very well to the long term value of education.
Andrew Kortina • Metrics, Incrementalism, and Local Maxima
What is ignored are wasted effort and natural resources, which should be subtracted from the growth calculation to reveal a more accurate number of how well people, not the "economy," are doing.
Jacob Lund Fisker • Early Retirement Extreme: A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence
The intrusion of smartphones and social media are not the only changes that have deformed childhood. There’s an important backstory, beginning as long ago as the 1980s, when we started systematically depriving children and adolescents of freedom, unsupervised play, responsibility, and opportunities for risk taking, all of which promote competence,
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood
First He Came for Cancel Culture. Now He Wants to Cancel Smartphones
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