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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

(Teaser rates exploit present bias.)

Cass R. Sunstein • Nudge: The Final Edition

Edtech platforms give everyone access to the most talented, experienced, and innovative teachers, unconstrained by geography (or public school salary caps).

Connie Chan • Edtech's Answer to Remote Learning Burnout | Andreessen Horowitz

Our education system has a sort of built-in fun-to-learning ratio that gets smaller as the years go on, because many of the tools we use to teach core concepts are dated and static. There are a few “edutainment” products if kids are lucky enough to have the iPads or laptops to use them on, but not enough, and they’re plainly of a lower order than t... See more

Devin Coldewey • Four views: Is edtech changing how we learn?

There's this ever-present myth that we've slashed funding for public education in the US over the last 40 years, but meanwhile we've tripled it in terms of cost per student — and results have been flat: a massive price increase with no positive change to quality.

Erik Torenberg • The Higher Education Bubble Pt. 2

“We have bought hook, line, and sinker into the idea that education is about training and ‘success,’ defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge,” Hebdon goes on. “The competitive efficiency culture—electronic immersion, high-paced everything, career networking as a way of life, prestige, money—it disconnects the s

Chris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

This all had to do with editors. If you were the kind of person who was enrolled at Princeton, you tended to speak of them as if they were individual human beings. The Toms and Kevins of the world, and most of the population of this town, were more likely to club together and subscribe to collective edit streams. Between those extremes was a slidin

Neal Stephenson • Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel

WeeCare's in-home model often results in tuition prices 30-40% below market.

Turner Novak • WeeCare, Carebnb’s, and the US Child Care Epidemic

The New York City schools have recently begun experimenting with a program that pays students for improving their standardized test scores; initial results have been extremely encouraging. By focusing on immediate rewards, these incentive programs help correct for the immature prefrontal cortices of children and teenagers.