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Most ed products overhype their learning gains. It understandably engenders cynicism. But A. Marketers gonna market. B. Some claims are, in fact, better substantiated than others. Questions do have answers, even if they're sometimes incomplete.

This is my main criticism of outsourcing one’s research to an LLM, especially given that their failure mode involves hallucinating stuff that is patently untrue.

Steelman modern, large scale public protests for me. Because it sure does seem like approximately nothing good ever comes of them.

Tonight takes the taco for absolutely insane all time geopolitical takes on this platform. And it’s not particularly close.

Anyone who has actually read about how transFORMers works knows this is correct.

Or... 1. The instructional techniques don't work very well, so many kids are both disengaged and struggling. 2. Parents implicitly realize their child needs more individualization and an IEP is one of the few ways the system allows for that.

Hashtag truth.

When you hear someone earnestly use the term 'critical thinking,' it behoves you to ask questions like 'what exactly do you mean by critical thinking?' and 'how does it differ from thinking generally, or from, say, reasoning?'

Ocassionaly, I come across some person or organization saying that they've been doing something for 'over a quarter-century' and that doesn't feel like such a long time anymore.

When politicians say stuff like this, it's easy to think of them as mustache-twisting villains. Perhaps the simpler explanation is that qua politicians, they conceive only of coercive power. The idea of achieving massive impact through voluntary means is inconceivable/suspect.

A republic, if you can keep it. Celebrate the great inheritance giants have bequeathed us and pledge to keep it on your sacred honor. Happy 4th!

‘Online’ in an Internet context comes from the idea of using the physical wire (the ‘line’) to connect and communicate. In a military context, ‘coming on-line’ is when a unit literally joins the line of battle, ready to fight, and that seems like a better etymology.