Thrilled to share this one with everyone. In 2009, North Carolina hired analytics firms to investigate whether students were being placed in math classes appropriately. They weren't. More than half of students ready for advanced math were left out. x.com/CenterforEdPro…

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You’re right, what if the left retaliated? What if they nominated only liberal ideologues, taught only leftist views in law schools, or just abandoned legal reasoning altogether and legislated their policies from the bench? I mean the list goes on. Can you imagine?

The media's eternal failure to grasp a very simple accounting identity vexes me greatly.

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Yikes indeed

I think conservatives write off AOC way too easily. I mean yeah you can point to her "defund the police" link from her website and whatever, but the lesson of the last decade is that policy details don't matter as much. She's charismatic, energetic, and optimistic.

Buried lede from AP poll:

As July 2000 comes to a close, let’s look back on the month’s top three stories, as decided by you, the viewers: 3. July 17 Taco Bell retires a popular mascot.

me explaining to my normie wife how I got sucked into an X housing feud today between Derek Thompson and Matt Stoller

I will not make a sausage joke. I will not make a sausage joke. I will not make a sausage joke.

You couldn't cover up a full-on recession, but I'm not sure this is true more generally. People know if THEY can't find a job etc. but are very bad at knowing how things are going beyond that, if things are worse elsewhere/in older times, etc.

Chamath Palihapitiya I worked at BLS for years and can tell you that revisions are completely legitimate. Many field-reported stats simply come in *late* after the close of the month. Would you prefer that they just ignore the newer stats that come in? In fact, as a senior BLS economist I myself led

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Loved The Assessment, best movie I've seen in a while. Came out last year but flew under the radar, not sure I'd even heard of it before stumbling across it tonight.

What's the best real-life success story of "rapidly retraining" people whose skills have been made useless by trade or tech advances?