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> have them do the work.
There is literally no more effective learning method than this.
Everything else is forgotten within 3 months. Look up knowledge retention rates for state-funded education.
It is horrible and utter waste of everyone's time and money.
I know people won't like to hear this. But this book basically shows that education is basically just [signalling]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics\) ). The thing is though, that he also shows that people that have higher degrees (like Bachelor's or Master's) actually earn more money even if they are employed in fields like being a bartender or waiter funnily enough. I guess it is literally becoming true that you need a degree to help get these jobs (at least the higher end of these).
Everyone getting a Bachelors degree is basically just the same as everyone having a high school diploma. It is like standing up in a concert to see better, if you do it that is fine, but then if everyone does it we are all in the same position again.
https://www.amazon.com/Case-against-Education-System-Waste/dp/0691174652
Me too, my parents are foxhunting tories. That wasn't forced upon me, but the bubble is such that you can't see out of it.
Now I see people like Shapiro call this cultural/class awakening actually another form of indoctrination. Even if that did exist, you wouldn't need it to see inequality is very real https://www.amazon.com/Brainwashed-Universities-Indoctrinate-Americas-Youth/dp/1595559795
I'm about to start reading "UNgrading" by Susan D Blum. The book is 15 educators making the case for going "gradeless" and exploring how ranking and rating students undermines learning.
Not sure how much of it I'll be able to incorporate, but as a writing professor I'd so much rather mentor and teach students to interact with critical feedback than say "your memoir piece was a 'B+.'"
Big discrepancy? I see a range from ~$50k in low cost-of-living states to ~$70k in high cost-of-living states. Seems like splitting hairs, considering that the value contributed to society by the typical teacher is less than zero.
With regard to divestment of athletics and academics I highly recommend Beer and Circus
I am eager to read others’ replies, as I, too, am interested in this. I just received my copy of this book (https://www.amazon.com/Ungrading-Students-Undermines-Learning-Education/dp/1949199827) and it seems like it will have lots of good ideas for what you’re interested in. Although I haven’t yet read it, perhaps you should check it out, too
I believe there's an economist who wrote a book about this
https://www.amazon.com/Case-against-Education-System-Waste/dp/0691196451
No, charter schools, private schools, home school, just give the money to the parents and let them decide how to get their kids educated.
Public education in Chicago is about as good as no school at all. We know that is the case with many schools in Baltimore. Worse, Baltimore spends the 3rd most in the nation for that failing education.
Charter Schools and Their Enemies https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541675134/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_aQyeGb59Q9Y9R
It is obvious you are a liberal. Why do you come to a place that is for conservatives?
Also: try to educate yourself to our point of view
u/Sophiadaputa, it's unlikely that anyone will be able do this question justice of AskReddit on all places. I would recommend reading this book: https://smile.amazon.com/Black-Kids-Sitting-Together-Cafeteria/dp/0465083617
It's by a Black developmental psychologist and includes descriptions of how White, Black, and other racial/ethnic/cultural identities develop in the U.S. As usual, reading a book is probably the best way to get a real answer.
You know there is a field of educational psychology which is filled by people desperately trying to find a way to teach kids how to think via schooling, and the results come back unanimous every time: school does not teach people how to think better by any metric.
What you are listing is the goal of schooling, not the reality. There's an entire book on this by the author of Open Borders, Bryan Caplan who is a favorite on this sub:
https://www.amazon.com/Case-against-Education-System-Waste/dp/0691174652
You can also search him and this book title on youtube for his summary and podcasts etc.
You might find this really interesting and viewquakey
"The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money"
By one of the most interesting economists alive, Bryan Caplan. Strongly recommend this (and his other works like Open Borders) for exposure to convincing angles you were unlikely to have run into otherwise!
I can agree with that.
Charter Schools and Their Enemies https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541675134/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_LCkiFbAFK28K5
I believe charter schools and pushing for 2 parent families in the black community would fix a lot of the problems facing it. I also know as a single father how hard it is for males wanting to be a father to get the state to support them. If I wasn’t a man of great fortitude I would have called it a day and left my daughter to escape the BS I deal with constantly from my ex.
It’s hard not to turn to crime when you can’t read o do basic math. Schools are owned by the Democrat Party.
There are a lot of studies arguing that assessment based schooling is actually less effective than just lecturing to an audience without tests.
What tests actually do is give the school board an excuse to fire teachers, and assign blame for poor education standards onto individual students or teachers.
Here's one reading option for you. This is just one out of thousands or books and articles.
https://www.amazon.ca/Ungrading-Students-Undermines-Learning-Instead/dp/1949199827
Because it's been regulated to the point where it isn't free market.
And privately doing it would be better.
I'm not naive I just disagree, some suggested reading.
Undergraduate at a prestigious university costs lots of money. School is mostly signaling, I doubt you need 4+ years to learn how to administer a single test. Going to grad school has a significant opportunity cost for smart individuals. Tons of smart people are driven by ideas rather than money.
The problem is not factual knowledge that is taught through education; the problem is that the education system has become very left-wing (see, for instance, Shapiro's <em>Brainwashed</em>).
Not enough to justify the time and cost of school. We do it for the piece of paper we get at the end because it signals to future employers that we are smart and hard-working. If you really want to have your mind blown read <em>The Case Against Education</em>.
Doesn't matter where LSU is located they don't hire conservative proffersors or give them a platform to voice their opinions go read a book. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1595559795/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_Z78E2FZGC1N00VVG4SC4
This book states facts with all links in the index and tells you that 90% of college proffersors in America are liberal democrats. This is all coming from a student himself at FAU LOL.
> There's basically no working with data. How can you train in statistics without working with real data? There's no real world value to any of this. My skills as a data scientist/applied statistician are not improving.
MS Applied Economics here -- such much calculus and a ridiculous waste of time.
Every transaction benefits both parties, often asymmetrically. In this case, the professors with vast knowledge of rarely useful mathematics benefit greatly...you much less so.
Do your best to re-do all the questions/problems in python (what I did in my MS).
Consider giving this book a read - in line with your ideas here.
The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691174652/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_QJHN9P768ZN1WG3SHEZ2
By the logic of this article positive externalities from schooling should be subtracted from the subsidy amount.
(Also, I'd like to add that it is not at all clear that schooling, particularly higher education, has a net positive subsidy. The Case Against Education argues that the net externality is actually negative because it promotes credentialism.)
As a speech therapist, I would suggest you talk to your pediatrician about your options for therapies to build communication skills.
I view the hitting/physical outbursts as a form of communication in place of words that your child doesn’t have yet. We want to replace those behaviors with language!
At first, I usually start with gestures that mean “more” / “want” / “help” / “all done” , kind of like sign language. This is easy for most children to pick up, given constant repetition, and when paired with a verbal word, oftentime leads to the eventual verbal imitation.
I also really like this series of social-emotional childrens books: https://www.amazon.com/Hands-Are-Hitting-Best-Behavior/dp/1575423081/ref=nodl_ These have worked well for me with clients diagnosed with autism :)
May I recommend a couple of things that have worked with my bub of a similar age?
There’s a book series called “_____ are not for _____”. There’s one on hitting and one on biting that my kid responded to really well.
The other thing I did was get my son things he could safely throw and chew. Got him some bean bags for throwing and some chewelry for chewing. I realized my kid was frequently getting overstimulated so he wasn’t really capable of stopping the behavior himself. So instead I redirected the impulse. It’s not perfect but it works at daycare 95% of the time and at home about 85% of the time.
Walking away was absolutely the best course of action - glad you had the presence of mind to do so!
It was very surprising to see the New York Times, of all places, being so honest.
They are wrong about the issues, though.
For housing, the problem is excessively strict zoning requirements. Stop that, then let the market do its thing, and the problem would solve itself.
For schooling, they wrongly assume that the amount of money per student controls how good the education is. There is no correlation. The problem for low income areas isn't that the schools have relatively less money to play with. It's that there is no competition.
In public schools for rich areas, those schools have to compete with private schools that charge tuition, because if parents aren't happy with the public school, they'll just send their kid somewhere better. In public schools for poor areas, the parents don't have enough money to do that, and the public school doesn't have to get better.
The solution here is school choice. And we know for a fact that it works (see Charter Schools and Their Enemies if you need details).
In both cases, the standard Republican solution to the problem would work, and the standard Democrat solution wouldn't. That the video is wrong about this isn't so bad, but it's pretty clear that it never even occurred to them that the standard Democrat solution doesn't work, or that they should even bother to look at the standard Republican solution.
Still, this is a step in the right direction for the NYT.
Exactly I quit teaching never looked back. They got mad at me for refusing to strike, because the school asked for an extra 14 minutes if class time a day.
Not only does their pay increase, but they get a great retirement and then go double dip in another state.
And the PISA scores show they absolutely suck, like generally teachers are crap and should be liable for any student that they graduate that can’t perform at least at the 11th grade level.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/us/us-students-international-test-scores.html
The principal at the local school asked me if I was interested in teaching math. I asked if I could fail any student that doesn’t reach grade level. Nope, I had to jumó through hoops, so even if he failed a standardized math test, I couldn’t fail him. I passed on it. They wonder why they are short 2 math teachers and ended up just having General teachers cover it and the math class is taught online. Still can’t fail them if they don’t do the work, it blows my mind.
Public schools should be shut down, give the parents the money and let them decide on a school, let charter schools compete.
Charter Schools and Their Enemies https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541675134/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_JEAKGWA6ZTTT7DF16YXS
We went through something very similar with my oldest and the book: Hands are not for Hitting, was a game changer! We would (and still do) read it separately from any incidents and it really helped (along with putting her down and the hitting hurts line).
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1575423081/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_5FEBYVPVK114VFVT58WY
She’s almost 4 now and the most she’ll do when she’s so frustrated is put her hand up like she’s going to hit but she’ll stop herself from hitting and we’re working on using her words to talk about her big feelings.
Some of ya’ll need some education. Here’s a good start https://www.amazon.com/Black-Kids-Sitting-Together-Cafeteria/dp/0465083617 or https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414/ref=pd_aw_fbt_img_1/132-0270931-6552858?pd_rd_w=xxvAG&pf_rd_p=0ac31943-e5c4-4aef-ab7b-6ab45d3ad9aa&pf_rd_r=0HRA5XVEDECM4ZMSVVTK&pd_rd_r=da7a9d64-3982-4533-824c-3d...
I don't fully endorse this book but it is a very thought provoking argument - written by a PhD economist, relying on the social science evidence - that it doesn't much matter. https://www.amazon.com/Case-against-Education-System-Waste/dp/0691174652