American talent crunch is multidimensional and very very bad 1. About 25% of U.S. bachelor’s graduates are in STEM—roughly around the OECD average—but only 7.3% are in engineering, manufacturing & construction, 43rd of 44 countries benchmarked. 2. K‑12 math is weak by

The country is waking up to the issue of underprepared college students. The call is coming from inside the elementary school building. This story out of Boston is illustrative: “We do not have the number of students in the entirety of Boston Public Schools performing at grade

This book is perhaps the biggest piece of activist scholarship in all of the Social Sciences. Many delusional leftists continue to parrot the false claims within it.

The "every kid gets a Chromebook" idea has been a failure. Test scores are down. Screens are bad for learning. Plus kids use school-issued devices to watch streaming services, YouTube, and even porn. My latest in The New York Times: nytimes.com/2025/11/16/opi…

Has the Daily Express received a messge from the future? Migrant panic as 7,000 deported in brutal crackdown as EU country pulls plug on asylum Pakistan deported 7,700 Afghan refugees express.co.uk/news/world/213…

Math scores didn’t collapse overnight. They collapsed because we treated memorization as a sin and cluttered the curriculum with “strategies.” Reading got its science moment; math is overdue.

When will someone tell the Daily Express isnt in the EU? (yet?) Migrant panic as 7,000 deported in brutal crackdown after EU country pulls plug on asylum express.co.uk/news/world/213…

This is terrifying. "[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them." ... "We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" -Sean Westwood

It's time to remove laptops from classrooms. 24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images. The pen is mightier than the keyboard.

Irish police (Gardai)

A society that can’t guarantee first-grade proficiency before handing someone a high-school diploma — then a seat at a major research university — is a society that has stopped taking education seriously. We’re not talking about students who are a little behind in calculus.

The decline in the predictive power of GPA is remarkable

This UCSD math proficiency scandal reminds me of the great financial crisis in 2008. There was an assumption then, that bundled mortgages are nearly risk-free investments. This led to banks being incentivized to underwrite more mortgages, so they started handing out "NINJA" loans

The obsession with getting your kids into an Ivy+ college is overrated. The same kids who are able to get into an elite school will earn just as much money if they get into a good public school. The income gain is literally 0% Why are people obsessed with it then? Because

The Decline of the Great American Research University realcleareducation.com/2025/11/13/the…

Bret Weinstein just said something that won’t leave my head: For the first time in 300,000 years of human evolution, we removed the cost from the single biggest reward nature ever invented — sex and pair-bonding. Reliable birth control + abortion = you can now cash the

Holy hell. Graham Linehan on Triggernometry just explained exactly how entire societies get taken over — using a party game invented in the Soviet Union. It’s called Werewolf. You get a card. Most people are villagers. Two people are werewolves. At “night” everyone closes their

A bug in Springer Nature data shakes up bibliometrics | ROARS roars.it/un-bug-nei-dat…

Working paper. Runs ~500k Chinese graduate dissertations through plagiarism-detection software, then links them to 60k successful civil-service recruits (and controls). Individuals with high plagiarism scores substantially more likely to enter government + advance faster.