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Twenty-one years ago, our son Joshua received a diagnosis of moderate to severe autism. Today he received a BA from Pepperdine University — summa cum laude.

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In the US there are now more babies born to mothers in their 40s than there are to teenage mothers

Harry's Princely Problems, by Laura McKenna, PhD open.substack.com/pub/lauramcken…

“A Princeton historian said his students arrive on campus with a narrower vocabulary and less understanding of language than they used to have. There are always students who “read insightfully and easily and write beautifully,” he said, “but they are now more exceptions.” Jack

"The average Black student in Mississippi performed about 1.5 grade levels ahead of the average Black student in Wisconsin. Just think about that for a moment. Wisconsin spends about 35 percent more per pupil to achieve worse results."

New pod: Something very strange is happening to the labor market for college graduates. Their unemployment is rising much faster than the overall economy—in a way that's unprecedented in the last 40 yrs. And it's not just that. MBA graduates are having a harder and harder time

As I say in the episode, there's a funny trend of college-educated people who insist that college is a scam in the zero-stakes environment of a Twitter back-and-forth. Meanwhile, in the actual high-stakes economy, the college wage premium is still near an all-time high, despite

The same 8th Grade NAEP data ranks NJ #1 in the country in education AND yet less than 60% of NJ's 8th graders are on grade level in math and reading: usnews.com/news/best-stat… and nationsreportcard.gov/profiles/state… Laura Waters Laura McKenna, PhD Derrell Bradford Dale Chu Wake Up Call New Jersey

I think I'm beating a dead horse, but this is still new info to a lot of people: Mississippi's educational improvements are replicable! They shifted to a science-based reading curriculum and it's working! Your state could do this too! x.com/ProfDBernstein…

I'm basically an optimist, but I find it hard to argue against two claims: a) Screens/social media makes it easier to not pay attention in school b) GenAI makes it easier to cheat in school The combination of (a) + (b) is going to be a huge challenge for young ppl's education.

The many variations on "we're not teaching kids boring facts, we're teaching them how to think" always rub me the wrong way. You can't think without having stuff inside your head to think about.