The Blunder Years, Episode 64: COVID schools and old dudes on Facebook
A wide-ranging discussion on what a “libertarian” is, old white dudes on Facebook, teachers, COVID schools, Elon Musk, and decision-making in your 20s. Continue Reading
Education Reform
The Blunder Years, Episode 43: Fixing education, male loneliness, and middle school hoops
Two old chums from Teach for America Houston shooting the shit about life, hoops, flipped classrooms, and male loneliness. Continue Reading
The Blunder Years, Episode 26: How f*cked is the U.S. education system? (Plus: socialism!)
My man Jordan here actually lived in Finland for a bit playing football, so let’s let him discuss “socialism” in all its glory. Plus: a lot more. Continue Reading
Do we now lip-service the importance of education?
Kinda feels like the same thing as an exec discussing “mission and vision.” Continue Reading
Here’s why the traditional college model will probably never die
Here’s some research from Stanford University on what exactly first-stage investors (in startups) are looking for when they give money. The essential “elevator pitch” of the story is that an early-stage investor typically has 1,000 meeting requests in a year, has to choose… Continue Reading
The new face of inequality: extracurricular activities
Think about this all for a second: More extracurricular activities = more positive outcomes for children, generally speaking. From activities like “Debate” or “Varsity Baseball,” (not sure why I put either of those in quotes) they learn teamwork, overcoming adversity,… Continue Reading
There are more minorities than whites in U.S. public schools
Here’s a new report from NCES; it has a lot of data points on U.S. public school demographics between here and 2022, and this, summarized in Quartz, might be the most interesting: this fall, Hispanics + Asians + African-Americans + Native… Continue Reading
ChromeBook could supplant iPads in schools because of a simple contextual functionality
This is a cool story — it initially appeared on The Atlantic, but I saw it over on Quartz, and ostensibly, it’s about the educational technology sector, which is damn near close to $10 billion/year (up 2.5 percent from last year). There… Continue Reading